Posted: 6/27/2017 12:12 AM
Post subject: Can BizHawk handle .nib files for the Apple II?
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temp_worker
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Is there a way to make BizHawk handle .nib files for the Apple II? AppleWin can run them natively without having to convert them to .dsk files first, something that doesn't seem to be guaranteed to work correctly with some of the nib2dsk converters out there.
Posted: 6/27/2017 12:17 AM
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No, that isn't supported in BizHawk at this time. Feel free to write up a feature request. I thought about adding this support for C64 (those nib converters are hard to find and suck). It will be more complicated to support .nib for both, I'm not sure what the user experience would be there.
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Posted: 6/30/2017 7:26 PM
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adelikat wrote:
No, that isn't supported in BizHawk at this time. Feel free to write up a feature request. I thought about adding this support for C64 (those nib converters are hard to find and suck). It will be more complicated to support .nib for both, I'm not sure what the user experience would be there.
NIB files are a little more tricky to work with. When they're extracted from a C64 disk, for example, they often have more than one single rotation of the disk per track. In order to get a G64 file out of it, they will estimate where in the NIB file each track repeats. It's especially tricky with disks that use a custom format- you just sorta get a bitstream and have to guess. We would probably have to employ something like Nibtools.
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