12 Jun
2024
12 Jun
'24
5:34 a.m.
On Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at 6:37 PM, Jim Carpenter <jim(a)deitygraveyard.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 2:06 AM segaloco via TUHS
tuhs(a)tuhs.org wrote:
What would you suggest? My main point of reference is years and years of being in the
console video game scene, bin/cue is the most accessible of the high fidelity formats
I've seen for things, compared with say cdi and mdf/mds. Does a plain old iso
suffice for all relevant data from the media? Frankly I've never done dumps on a
UNIXy computer with an optical drive, only Windows boxen, so can't say I'm hip
to the sort of disc image you get doing a dd from an optical /dev entry, maybe I just need
to get a UNIX of some kind on my old beater game machine with an optical drive to do these
dumps going forward.
Either way, open to suggestions on what format is the ideal combination of capturing
everything that matters from optical media while not using too onerous or closed up of an
image format. This is not an area I'm "with the times on", I just went
straight to what was customary for myself over a decade ago when I was last diligently
interacting with optical media preservation.
- Matt G.
In any case, I intend to upload bin/cue images of
all 7 of the CDs I've received which span from 1999 to 2007, and mostly concern the
5ESS-2000 switch from the administrative and maintenance points of view. Once I get
archive.org to choke these files down I also intend to go back around to the discs
I've already archived and reupload them as proper bin/cue rips. I was in a hurry the
last time around and simply zipped the contents from the discs, but aside from just being
good archive practice, I think bin/cue is necessary for the other discs as they seem to
have control information in the disc header that is required by the interactive
documentation viewers therein.
Bin/cue is a PITA. You've checked that a simple raw image isn't
adequate? Perhaps the viewer was just checking the volume label?
Jim