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DiskDump is a Node module with both a command-line utility and a web server API for converting disk images to/from various formats (eg, JSON files, JSON files with comments, IMG disk images, etc).
In addition to converting disk images to/from JSON, DiskDump can also create disk images from the contents of local files/folders.
For example, from the root directory of the project, you could run:
node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img
to produce a disk.img containing one file, "README.md", which you could then mount on your local operating
system or inside a PCjs machine.
To make the disk image more useful, you might want to download a copy of VisiCalc into that folder as well, so that you could then run:
node modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md" --format=img --output=disk.img
to produce a disk.img containing both "VC.COM" and "README.md". In fact, this is exactly how the
VisiCalc Disk stored in the VisiCalc
folder was generated.
The equivalent web server API request would look like:
http://localhost:8088/api/v1/dump?path=/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/vc.com;README.md&format=img
DiskDump is a port of the earlier PCjs convdisk.php utility.