Apple II FTN - DiskCopy disk image
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File Type Notes
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Developer Technical Support
File Type: $E0 (224)
Auxiliary Type: $0005
Full Name: DiskCopy disk image
Short Name: DiskCopy disk image
Written by: Matt Deatherage, Dave Lyons & Steve Christensen May 1992
Files of this type and auxiliary type contain disk images from Apple's
DiskCopy program on the Macintosh.
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DiskCopy is a program written by Steve Christensen of Apple Computer, Inc.,
for internal use in duplicating and distributing 3.5" floppy disks. Because
of its utility in distributing disk images on the Macintosh, DiskCopy is used
in several Apple developer products even though DiskCopy is not an official
Apple product and is not supported as such.
Since the monthly Developer CD Series discs contain many DiskCopy disk images,
and since the AppleShare and HFS FSTs in System Software 6.0 and later
automatically translate DiskCopy files (HFS file type dImg and creator dCpy)
to Apple II file type $E0 and auxiliary type $0005, the format is provided
here for your utility use only. Apple does not guarantee that files not
generated by DiskCopy will work with DiskCopy.
DEFINITIONS
DiskCopy uses a simple checksum algorithm to help insure data integrity for
archived disk images. The algorithm for generating the 32-bit checksum is as
follows:
Initialize checksum to zero
For each data REVERSE WORD:
Add the data REVERSE WORD to the checksum
Rotate the 32-bit checksum right one bit (wrapping bit 0 to bit 31)
The following 65816 assembly language routine calculates a DiskCopy checksum.
It's not a speedy operation--it takes about 12 seconds to calculate the
checksum on an 800K disk image. Anyone finding an assembly routine that can
perform this task in under 5 seconds may apply for their IIgs Certificate of
Deityship, as documented in the File Type Note for file type $B6.
(Oh, by the way, any entries have to be under 1K in size--the following
routine is 88 bytes. So don't think unwinding loops is your ticket to fame
and fortune.)
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*
* Compute checksum for DiskCopy data
*
* v1.2 by David A. Lyons, 18-May-92
*
* MPW IIgs assembly format
*
* Inputs on stack:
* Push pointer to data (long)
* Push size of data (long) (Must be even!)
* JSL CalcChecksum
* STA TheChecksum+2
* STX TheChecksum
*
* Output:
* Checksum in A and X (bytes +0 and +1 in X, bytes +2 and +3 in A)
* (The inputs have been removed from the stack)
*
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CalcChecksum PROC
phd ;save caller's direct page reg
lda #0
pha
pha ;push initial checksum value (zero)
tsc
tcd
checksum equ 1
oldD equ checksum+4
theRTL equ oldD+2
dataSize equ theRTL+3
dataPtr equ dataSize+4
*** Set dataSize to -(dataSize/2)-1 so we can count up by one
*** (instead of down by two) to see when we're done
lda <dataSize+2
lsr a
eor #$ffff
sta <dataSize+2
lda <dataSize
ror a
eor #$ffff
sta <dataSize
ldy #0
nextWord inc <dataSize
bne moreData
inc <dataSize+2
beq noMoreData
moreData
*** Get next 16-bit word from the data buffer
lda [<dataPtr],y
xba ;swap to 65816 byte order
*** Add the data word to the checksum
clc
adc <checksum
sta <checksum
bcc noCksumRoll
inc <checksum+2
noCksumRoll
*** Rotate the 32-bit checksum right one bit, wrapping bit 0 into bit 31
lda <checksum+2
lsr a
ror <checksum
bcc bit0was0
ora #$8000 ;if we rotated a 1 out of bit 0,
bit0was0 sta <checksum+2 ; then set bit 31
*** Advance to the next word and go back for more
iny
iny
bne nextWord ;go back for more data
inc <dataPtr+2
bra nextWord ;go back for next bank of data
noMoreData pla
xba
tay
pla
xba
tax ;pull checksum into YX (put in 68000
order)
pld ;restore caller's direct page reg
lda 2,s
sta 2+8,s
lda 1,s
sta 1+8,s
pla
pla
pla
pla ;discard input values
tya
rtl
EndP
END
The following definition is used in this document in addition to those defined
for all Apple II file types:
Checksum A 32-byte quantity calculated using the previously-defined
algorithm. When these are contained in the file, they are in
REVERSE order.
FILE STRUCTURE
All of the information for a DiskCopy disk image is in the data fork. The
resource fork usually contains Macintosh resources (in Macintosh resource fork
format), including vers resources listing the checksums. This allows
Macintosh users to use the Macintosh Finder's "Get Info..." function to
quickly examine the checksums.
The File Format
Because this is a native Macintosh file format, all the multi-byte constants
are stored in Reverse order.
diskName (+000) 64 Bytes A Pascal String containing the name of the
disk. This field takes 64 bytes
regardless of the length of the String.
dataSize (+064) Rev. Long The number of bytes (not blocks) of user
data. User data is the 512 bytes of each
block that a normal block-reading command
returns.
tagSize (+068) Rev. Long The number of bytes of tag data. Tag data
is the extra 12 bytes of "scavenger"
information present on 400K and 800K
Macintosh disks. Apple II operating
systems always leave these bytes zeroed,
and they're not present on 720K or 1440K
disks. If there are no tag bytes, this
field will be zero.
dataChecksum (+072) Checksum Checksum of all the user data on the disk.
The checksum algorithm is called for the
entire disk, not on a block-by-block or
sector-by-sector basis. This is in
Reverse order (most significant byte
first).
tagChecksum (+076) Checksum Checksum of all the tag data on the disk.
If there is no tag data, this should be
zero. This is in Reverse order (most
significant byte first).
diskFormat (+080) Byte 0 = 400K
1 = 800K
2 = 720K
3 = 1440K (all other values are reserved)
formatByte (+081) Byte $12 = 400K
$22 = >400K Macintosh (DiskCopy uses this
value for all Apple II disks not
800K in size, and even for some of
those)
$24 = 800K Apple II disk
private (+082) Rev. Word Must be $0100. If this field is not
$0100, the file may be in a different
format.
userData (+084) dataSize Bytes
The data blocks for the disk. These are
in order from block zero through the end
of the disk.
tagData (+xxx) tagSize Bytes The tag data for this disk, starting with
the tag data for the first block and
proceeding in order. This field is not
present for 720K and 1440K disks, but it
is present for all other formats even if
all the data is zeroes.
Further Reference
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