Date   : Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:44:44 +0000 (GMT)
From   : John Sullivan <js10039@...>
Subject: Re: Emulation systems

On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, lamcw wrote:
> All disk images can be split into separate files with headers. MacBeebEm's
> headers have the following 10-byte format...
> 
>   Offset        Value
>      0          255
>      1,2        lo, hi load address
>      3,4        lo, hi exec   "
>      5          checksum *
>      6,7,8,9    spare and may take any value
>[...]
> Perhaps we can have some discussion and agree on a standard header.

i) can we have the first four bytes as a four-byte filetype identifier
(such as "MBBC" or something)

ii) surely for bytes 6-9 you mean '0; reserved for future expansion' ;)

John

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