[uae] Re: No working C.A.P.S. on Mac OS X
- From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:49:19 -0500
Hi David
On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:29 PM, David Lowe wrote:
For the benefit of the clueless, what does this CAPS library do?
It may help to know that "CAPS" or the "Classic Amiga Preservation
Society" have changed their name to the more portable "Software
Preservation Society". See http://www.softpres.org/ for more info on
who they are and what they do.
Basically, CAPS/Softpres came up with a way of making high-fidelity
digital images of floppy disks (even disks protected by all the weird
and wonderful copy protection systems that the Amiga's hardware
allowed people to invent). The CAPS library allows you to access Amiga
disks reproduced in this format.
With E-UAE, the CAPS library and an appropriate disk image, you can
load and experience a faithful copy of the original floppy disk. You
don't need to make do with cracked copies (most ADF images have been
cracked).
The only down side is that the CAPS library is not open source, so
it's only available on the platforms that the Softpres provide it for.
At the moment, this includes the Amiga itself, Linux (x86/x86-64/ppc)
and now the Mac (ppc and x86).
Cheers,
Rich
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