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Jeff Parsons c4a8d66027 Changed DiskDump to deal better with disk images that are physically larger than the disk's logical file system (specifically, 320Kb FAT images inside 360Kb disk images, and 160Kb FAT images inside 180Kb disk images); the Lotus 1-2-3 v1.0a disks I dumped from my personal collection are the perfect example.
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bin Added directory listings to PCSIG08 shareware README 2017-06-20 15:56:29 -07:00
lib Changed DiskDump to deal better with disk images that are physically larger than the disk's logical file system (specifically, 320Kb FAT images inside 360Kb disk images, and 160Kb FAT images inside 180Kb disk images); the Lotus 1-2-3 v1.0a disks I dumped from my personal collection are the perfect example. 2017-07-04 13:35:50 -07:00
package.json Replaced loadResource() with the more streamlined getResource(), for all your resource-getting needs (well, except for binary files, which should be coming soon) 2016-02-21 15:51:54 -08:00
README.md Fixed some lingering /pc references 2016-07-25 13:43:51 -07:00

README.md

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DiskDump Module

DiskDump is a Node module with both a command-line interface and a web server API for converting disk images to/from various formats (eg, JSON files, JSON files with comments, IMG disk images, etc).

Building Disk Images from Folders/Files

In addition to converting disk images to/from JSON, DiskDump can also create disk images from the contents of local files/folders.

For example, from the root directory of the project, you could run:

node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img

to produce a disk.img containing one file, "README.md", which you could then mount on your local operating system or inside a PCjs machine.

To make the disk image more useful, you might want to download a copy of VisiCalc into that folder as well, so that you could then run:

node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img

to produce a disk.img containing both "VC.COM" and "README.md". In fact, this is exactly how the disk.json stored in the VisiCalc folder was generated.

The equivalent web server API request would look like:

http://localhost:8088/api/v1/dump?path=/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md&format=img

DiskDump is a port of the original JavaScript Machines convdisk.php utility.