Re: Custom floppy reading hardware interface

From: Groepaz <groepaz_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:36:35 +0100
Message-Id: <201402021436.35500.groepaz@gmx.net>
On Sunday 02 February 2014, you wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Groepaz <groepaz@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 27 January 2014, you wrote:
> >> It appears that this is supported on KF for reading. Not writing, yet,
> >> though.
> >> 
> >> http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=135
> > 
> > that is really surprising - even the opensource linux software for
> > catweasel had write support iirc
> 
> Kryoflux has a bit of a policy problem with this. They are concerned with
> two issues:
> 
> 1. “Perfect” duplicates being passed off as forged originals
> 2. Imperfect images being written and possibly duplicated again
> 
> They built format verifiers so that images that were written could be
> rejected if they weren’t accurate. This solves #2 in most cases but leaves
> #1 as a problem.
> 
> I think they’ve changed over time and no longer emphasize #1 as being a
> blocking issue. So this means writing Mac images is probably only a matter
> of lack of developer time and interest. Since they are perfectionists
> about #2, they’ll want to get it right before releasing Mac support (if at
> all).

none of that is a concern with the existing software - since it only creates 
(and writes) "cooked" sector images (like d64).

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Unterschied nur noch Korinthenkackern bekannt ist, die scheinbar (oder 
anscheinend?) die einzigen sind, die ihn in wenigen Worten (oder Wörtern?) 
erklären können. Die weisen dann andere grundsätzlich (oder ausnahmslos?) auf 
solche Fehler hin. Aber den meisten ist das zu schwer (oder schwierig?), so 
dass die Mühe umsonst (oder vergeblich?) aufgewandt ist. 
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