Date   : Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:13:15 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Thomas Harte <t.harte@...>
Subject: Stealing a proper disc image format

I'm the author of ElectrEm, an Acorn Electron emulator as the name suggests,
and I've recently done a little poll and discovered that a wanted feature is
really good disc emulation.

So I want to implement supprt for a 'grown up' disc image format - i.e. one
that can handle protected and generally strangely formatted discs. So I was
wondering if there is an accepted one for BBC/Electron emulators that I just
don't know about? As far as I can pick up, even the archimedes emulators
seem to use adf as in ADFS not Amiga Disc Format.

Which brings me to my next idea, if I just acquisitioned a format from
another emulated computer system (e.g. ADF from the Amiga which just
contains an MFM stream) would there be any support for that?

-Thomas





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