Re: LisaEm 1.0.0 RC1 breaks floppy image support

From: toby <toby_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 07:23:35 -0700

On May 4, 11:16 am, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> ahunt..._at_email.domain.hidden wrote:
> > Got them from here:
>
> >http://vintage.tsfsc.com/the-archive/Apple%20Lisa/
>
> > there are many different copies of what are effectively the same
> > disks. I can't get any of them to work under latest LisaEm. An older
> > LisaEm (the alpha version) can load them just fine.
> ...
> If the images are inside an archive or container, such as SIT, HQX, or
> MacBinII, even if they are DiskCopy 4.2 disk images, the emulator will
> not be able to make use of them. In those cases, they need to be
> processed by StuffIt Expander first. This would be the reason for the
> emulator to say it cannot recognize it as a valid disk image.

Is it worth adding a few simple sniff tests and have the loader advise common errors?

--Toby

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