====== Added Reading Capability to Imaging Software ======

//24 June 2001//

The [[:glossary:ct|imaging software]] now has actual reading capability and allows us to image [[:glossary:track|track]] data on any disk. For those [[:glossary:copy protection|disk protections]] that we know about, it allows us to get the data from the disk perfectly, though the current version only dumps one track at a time. For disk protections we do yet not know about, it gives us a better understanding on how they work, so we can add support for them at a later date.

It reads things like [[:glossary:density|density]] information, timing etc. and currently produces huge files. For example, in reading all the different data that we need from a disk specified above, we get files of about 86Kb a track (as opposed to what can be stored in normal [[:glossary:mfm|MFM]] mode which is just over 7Kb - this is what is saved in an ADF file). A whole disk could be 160 times larger in this format.

An [[:glossary:cta|analyser]] is also under development which will bring the size down to around 1-2Mb per disk.