On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
> The images they made can be run on WinUAE, and there is talk of using the
> recently announced Catweasel V 4 for dumping the images back to floppy.
> They have also started looking at doing the same preservation on the Atari
> ST line, which ST people have problems with for some reason (namely Amiga
> people doing the standards).
Not surprising. I wish people could not act like infants all the time.
Another benefit of creating a universal standard is that it takes platform
wars out of the equation.
> Without support from the people of the different platforms it would be hard
> to get a universal program to work. While TOSEC.org has done a good job of
> cataloging image files from multiple systems, most of their archives are for
> programs that have been cracked, while CAPs is trying to preserver the
> programs as they were sold with the copy protection intact.
Platforms do not figure into the specification I have in mind. It would
be a specification. It could then be implemented on whatever platform
anyone cared to. As long as the various applications follow the spec,
images will be able to be stored where ever. Apple ][ users could store
Amiga images if they wanted to.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]
Received on Tue Aug 10 2004 - 23:18:20 BST