Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!
I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.
That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.
@foone I wonder if a 180 degree wide angle camera could get a decent pic that could be processed and separated into 3 images. Super useful if you get this figured out!
I think someone is trying to give me a virus with a tif file. I'm curious as to how that's even possible but I swore an oath about not doing security research so I'm gonna have to avoid looking into it
@misty I actually never used it back in its prime, but there are countless forums and blogs about folks trying to open MIX files they made back then. It must have been used by many.
#Digipres question: I've got a mac 800k floppy and a greaseweazle. I was able to fully copy (I think?) the disk by using:
"gw read out.hfe --format mac.800"
but I can't seem to convert it to any useful formats or verify that I've got files. I'm on a windows PC with plenty of linux handy, but greaseweazle doesn't seem to support any mac-specific formats
