virtual disk formats Re: [Coco] Sock Master Demos

[tim lindner]

Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:

> JVC is a sector-by-sector disk dump of the *data* parts of the disk,
> IE the 256 bytes of each sector that are normally used.
> 
> DMK was created, AFAIK, for the model III/4 emulators.  It also stores
> the inter-sector-gap headers and data.  This was necessary because
> TRS-DOS insists on storing file system data there. :-(  For the CoCo,
> you'd only need it, I would think, for really perverse copy-protected
> disks.

Very good summary.

> I've no clue about VDK.

It was invented by Paul Bergin for his Dragon Emulator. It is a sector
dump with a specialized header. Also it can contain more than one disk
image. But that isn't currently supported by MESS.

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tim lindner
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