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Since version 0.15, the VICE emulators have been able to attach disks
packed with Zipcode or Lynx directly, removing the need to manually
convert them into D64
files with c1541
.
This is achieved by automatically invoking c1541
, letting it
decode the file into a temporary image and attaching the resulting
temporary image read-only. For this to work, the directory containing
c1541
must be in your PATH
.
This uses the -unlynx
and -unzip
options of c1541
(see c1541 commands and options); these commands are not very
reliable yet, and could fail with certain kinds of Lynx and Zipcode
images (for example, they cannot deal with DEL
files properly).
So please use them with caution.
Lynx files usually come as .lnx files which are unpacked into single disk images. On the other hand, Zipcode files do not have a particular extension (although .z64 is sometimes used), and represent a disk by means of component files, named as follows:
If you attach as a disk image (or smart-attach) any one of these files, the emulator will simply pick up the other three (by examining the name) and then build a disk image using all four.