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On Jul 1, 8:22 am, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just wonder how possible is a disk image emulator for the GS? The 2mg format supports at least 3 types of data, including nibbles.
> Do you mean like the RAM disk that's built into the GS control panel?
>> It's just it seems a lot of disk are in the 2mg format, and it seems
>> currently you have to use emulators to convert them into something
>> readable by the GS.
> Well, the 2mg needs to be stripped of its 2mg header, but that's about
> it. The raw disk data can then be loaded on a physical (or RAM) disk
> by any of a number of file or disk transfer methods.
Just stripping off the header and loading the data into a RAM disk *may*
work as a quick and dirty method but I wouldn't advise doing this as a
regular way to use 2mg images. Also the 2mg format allows for comments
anywhere in the image. Although I've never seen an image that used this
feature, it wouldn't surprise me to find one.