IPF support in Clock Signal would be a really useful thing, I think. This said, this is old knowledge and may be now wrong. Reading is fine because it does not need to have a perfect recording of the magnetic flux since it does multiple passes to capture 'irregular bits' but as far as I understand it normal disks may not be able to re-generate protections correctly. This said, I kinda remember the Kryoflux guys being wary of this allowing piracy so they may have refrained from implementing this.įor floppy disks with protection though, there are limitations to what can be written back to the disk though as that requires more magnetic head precision than what regular floppy drive allow. When I looked at Kryoflux two years ago, this was not possible at the time but I think they and the community (on the Amiga at least) have been actively working on such a feature. Integrating the Kryoflux format in the emulators would definitely simplify the archiving process: Rip a floppy, mount the stream in the emulator, if it works well save it into a DSK.ĭoes that work in the other direction as well, being able to generate Kryoflux files so you can rebuild physical floppies?

I assume that this should be perfectly doable as well for Oric emulators.Ĭf this English Amiga Board thread for info about the library. The Amiga emulator WinUAE uses this to play protected games and this works great: scan your originals to IPF, then you can play them, including the protection inside your emulator, legally! I think the Kryoflux guys wrote an IPF library which allows emulators to dynamically translate IPF 'disks' into emulated floppy disks: the library will correctly re-generate the bit flux on demand when directed by the emulator. This said, it is perfectly possible to use Kryoflux scanned data inside emulators. This allows to faithfully reproduce the behavior of protected floppy disks (such as Dungeon Master's random bits based protection) but makes translation to actual floppy bits difficult, especially because IPF is apparently more like a combination of flux generating scripts (if I remember it correctly) than actual data. The IPF format output by Kryoflux does not translate in an obvious way to standard bit-based formats since it is composed of multiple readings of the magnetic flux so as to capture subtleties such as 'random bits' (they change value randomly when read), which were used for floppy protections. My knowledge of the Kryoflux dates from one or two years but it echoes what you just said. Unfortunately I don't know if such tool exist already (maybe it's worth to try HxC related software). Having these per-track-image files we can create a parser to extract the actual data and recreate Oric-DSK compatible file. IMO you need to use RAW MFM 300rpm format to capture 40+/80+, single/double side floppies. From what I've read quick in some Kryoflux docs, I think there is NO easy way to get directly Oric-DSK image.

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