Commodore-style disk images

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rje
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Commodore-style disk images

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Years ago, I wrote a suite of Perl modules that manipulates "plain" Commodore disk images; e.g. non-G64-style ones that include speed info.

With a little reverse engineering, I found that just a handful of bytes is sufficient meta-data to describe a Commodore disk structure enough for a generic parser to handle it.  And thus my Perl scripts and modules.

I never got to integrate my code with anything useful, beyond my own scripts, which would let me create and manipulate disk images from the command line.  That includes injecting and extracting files, but not creating subdirectories.

https://github.com/bobbyjim/CMD-images

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