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Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:59 am
by Alastair
munkeyboy wrote:I have opened the 104kb file with notepad and found that there is some personal data from the previous owner, which prevents me from uploading the file unfortunately, ...
Could you not write over the personal data with some Xs and then upload the file? I am not sure of the best program to use when editing the file but I suspect Notepad++ will probably do the job.

Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:54 am
by robcfg
For binary files, use better HxD, which is a very nice hex editor. Converting the disk to text may ruin it.

Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:54 pm
by munkeyboy
Here is the ammended file. I used a hex editor called neo by hhd software to change the personal details that I could see.
I only hope that there is something still worth saving at the end of all of this.

Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:21 pm
by sixxie
Here's a DMK of that disk.

Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:02 pm
by munkeyboy
Thank you Sixxie and to everyone who has helped with this. :D
Was there much involved in creating this .dmk file?

Re: Delta disk conversion to .vdk help

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:03 am
by sixxie
That was a combination of a bash one-liner to strip the 8-byte per-sector headers in the anadisk output, adding automatic single density to XRoar when sectors per track == 10 (plus switch to disable), and then a tiny kludge so it changed the "type" of the disk once it loaded (so it wrote DMK back instead of DSK/JVC).