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 Subject: RE: *.st files to zip ?
Author: donato ghionna (ppp-70-171.28-151.libero.it)
Date:   03-13-2002 21:30



Shalroth wrote:
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Use Makedisk to convert the image file back into a working Atari disk. Then use STZip to add all the files into a ZIP archive.

However...

The point of .ST files is that they are a complete 'image' of every byte in every cluster on the disk. This includes the Boot sector on the disk, which isn't actually a file, so won't be copied into the ZIP archive. A lot of ST games used custom bootsectors as a rudimentary form of copy-protection.

In fact, the bootsectors on some disks instructed the ST to load data from the raw sectors on the disk, if you tried to read the disk at the desktop it would appear blank (nothing in the directory because there are no actual files) or crash your computer (because there's binary in the FAT and directory area). Images of these disks convert back to real disks perfectly, but you can't ZIP the files (because there aren't any).

Any games that use the desktop/GEM interface should work, like Sim City, and most STOS games should work I think. It would....

 Topics Author  Date
  *.st files to zip ? new ndm 02-26-2002 22:40 
   RE: *.st files to zip ? new Shalroth 02-28-2002 10:10 
    RE: *.st files to zip ?  donato ghionna 03-13-2002 21:30 

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