| Announcing NetDisk and the Archive.org Disk Browser [message #385138] |
Wed, 17 July 2019 18:20  |
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Originally posted by: Stephen Heumann
Today at KFest, I announced NetDisk and the Archive.org Disk Browser.
NetDisk is an Apple IIGS utility that allows you to mount disks images
hosted on an HTTP server (a public web server or one on your local
network). The mounted disk images behave as if they were normal (but
read-only) disks on your IIGS: you can open files and run programs
directly off of them, or copy the files to your local disks using the
Finder or other standard utilities.
The NetDisk package also comes with the Archive.org Disk Browser, a
Finder extension that lets you conveniently search for disk images on
the Internet Archive (archive.org) and mount them using NetDisk.
For more information and downloads, see:
https://sheumann.github.io/NetDisk/
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Stephen Heumann
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| Re: Announcing NetDisk and the Archive.org Disk Browser [message #385179 is a reply to message #385138] |
Thu, 18 July 2019 21:15  |
D Finnigan
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Stephen Heumann wrote:
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> The NetDisk package also comes with the Archive.org Disk Browser, a
> Finder extension that lets you conveniently search for disk images on
> the Internet Archive (archive.org) and mount them using NetDisk.
Why Internet Archive and not Asimov? Surely Asimov is easier to access, is
longer-lasting, and is the most widely-known Apple II archive.
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]DF$
The New Apple II User's Guide:
https://macgui.com/newa2guide/
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| Re: Announcing NetDisk and the Archive.org Disk Browser [message #385186 is a reply to message #385179] |
Thu, 18 July 2019 23:39 |
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Originally posted by: Stephen Heumann
On 2019-07-19 01:15:22 +0000, D Finnigan said:
> Stephen Heumann wrote:
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>> The NetDisk package also comes with the Archive.org Disk Browser, a
>> Finder extension that lets you conveniently search for disk images on
>> the Internet Archive (archive.org) and mount them using NetDisk.
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> Why Internet Archive and not Asimov? Surely Asimov is easier to access, is
> longer-lasting, and is the most widely-known Apple II archive.
NetDisk can only access disk images using an unencrypted HTTP
connection, which Asimov doesn't support. This is necessary so that it
can use a feature called HTTP range requests to get the specific byte
ranges in the image files that are being accessed (and because the IIGS
can't handle the encryption for HTTPS).
Also, the Internet Archive provides a JSON-based search API, which the
disk browser uses to let you search for disk images by name or any
other metadata available on archive.org. I think this makes it pretty
easy to access.
A lot of content from Asimov is mirrored on archive.org, although I
can't say exactly how complete or up to date it is. If you can find
another Asimov mirror that supports unencrypted HTTP with range
requests (or get the main Asimov server to do so), then you can connect
to that as well, although you'll have to enter the disk image URLs
manually.
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Stephen
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