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6.1 Emulator Disk-Images
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This article is from the Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide, by Alex Maddison with numerous contributions by others.
6.1 Emulator Disk-Images
There are four main types of cross-platform disk-images. The most common types - DO and PO (.DSK), Nibble (.NIB) and 2IMG (*.2MG) - will be found on emulator FTP sites. The first three types are primarily intended for transferring 8-bit Apple software on 5.25" disk. The IIgs emulator XGS uses the 2IMG universal format (which may be easily converted to/from 800K DiskCopy images). The other types are proprietary formats required by a specific emulator, or created by a certain method of conversion. Since these types are unlikely to be found on FTP sites, they are included for completeness. In these cases, more information on the proprietary types can be found in the documentation of the specific emulator package they are designed for. There are a couple of disk-image types which have not been listed here - these are generally "raw" disk-image formats as noted in Section 2 - and these types are not capable of conversion into standard disk- images. "Raw" disk-images of 5.25" disks will generally be 200-220K in size.
THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS APPLY TO UNCOMPRESSED DISK-IMAGE FILES ONLY!
Disk-images with extensions such as *.gz, *.Z or *.zip are in compressed format and must be extracted by the appropriate program prior to use. Disk-images CAN be copied between platforms and they WILL work with a variety of emulators. If in doubt ALWAYS ensure BINARY translation between platforms!
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