apriboot(1)

📦 version 1.5.22, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 apriboot(1) — the Emulators girlies' guide 💖

okay so bestie, listen. this is apriboot, it lives in the Emulators corner of your manual, and it is lowkey a legend. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

apriboot — rewrite disc boot sector, converting between Apricot and PCDOS

like... it takes a boot sector and it rewrites it. apricot in, pc dos out. pc dos in, apricot out. it's giving bilingual icon. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apriboot [-format FORMAT] [-type TYPE] [-side SIDE] [-comp COMP] [-retry COUNT] [-pcdos] [-apricot] DISKIMAGE [DSKIMAGE...]

so you hand it a DISKIMAGE (and you can hand it more than one, DSKIMAGE..., she's greedy in the best way 🫶) and then you can decorate it with all these lil flags.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Apriboot rewrites the boot sector of the selected disc (or image), converting it between standard PCDOS format and the format used by the Apricot PC / Xi / F-series computers.

that's it. that's the whole job. one sector, two dialects, no cap. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -type TYPE — determines which driver is to be used. yes, which driver. that's the whole description. she's mysterious, she's ✨enigmatic✨, she's not elaborating.
  • -retry COUNT — sets how many times she's gonna try to read the disc if there's an error. like, how many chances are we giving this disc before we accept defeat 💀
  • -comp COMP — picks the compression method used on the source disc image file. and listen — this does absolutely nothing when you're reading an actual floppy disc. image files only, bestie. 🙈
  • -side SIDE — tells her which side of the disc (or image) to identify. the options are 0 or 1. pick a side. 🌈
  • -format FORMAT — selects a fixed format. and the manpage says, and I quote-ish: should not be necessary. iconic behaviour honestly, offering you a flag and then telling you you don't need it. slay. 💅
  • -apricot — forces the program to convert to Apricot format. and if the boot sector is already in Apricot format? it does nothing. no drama, no chaos, just vibes. 🧚
  • -pcdos — forces the program to convert to PCDOS format. if it's already PCDOS? again, does nothing. peace. 🍓

and here's the tea ☕ — if you supply neither -pcdos nor -apricot, then the boot sector gets set to the opposite of whatever is currently in use. she flips it. main character energy, fr fr. 🔥

⚠️ ngl bestie, be a little careful here — -pcdos and -apricot both rewrite the boot sector. that's literally the whole point of the program. so like, know what you're doing before you go converting things. 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • dsktrans(1) — her bestie. go read that one too. iykyk. 💜

💖 AUTHOR 💖

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com> — the legend who made all this happen. 👑

and that's the whole page!! 🦋✨ this was Version 1.5.9, dated 17 September 2018, served fresh from the Emulators section of the manual. periodt. 💅🌸

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