10-04-2015, 05:45 AM
There is no single super-easy way to do this. Especially since even a single "standard" computer system could often have multiple oddball formats (often for different OSes, formats that squeeze more space out of a disk, or copy protection)
The easiest way at the moment is probably to view SCP or Kryoflux dumps under the HxC disk tool. It will automatically find and decode sectors from multiple encodings (FM, MFM, CGR, and of various sector sizes) and you can compare those to known formats. It shows you all of this information in a nice pretty series of graphs and plots. If the data it finds is in a format that it supports, you can save it directly to an emulator image file.
A couple of bugs though, the HxC tool often crashes or hangs on images with gibberish in blank/unused tracks, often treats 40-track 2 sided SCP images as 80 track single sided, doesn't handle images with "flippy" data in them, and I think there are still some formats or encodings it doesn't recognize.
Another tool I have found useful are the PCE emulator tools (PRI, PFI, and PSI). They are command line tools, and much harder to use, but they are much more flexible, can find and decode any arbitrary sized sectors, and are great for automatically decoding images. However these tools are geared more for use with FM/MFM encoded disks.
The easiest way at the moment is probably to view SCP or Kryoflux dumps under the HxC disk tool. It will automatically find and decode sectors from multiple encodings (FM, MFM, CGR, and of various sector sizes) and you can compare those to known formats. It shows you all of this information in a nice pretty series of graphs and plots. If the data it finds is in a format that it supports, you can save it directly to an emulator image file.
A couple of bugs though, the HxC tool often crashes or hangs on images with gibberish in blank/unused tracks, often treats 40-track 2 sided SCP images as 80 track single sided, doesn't handle images with "flippy" data in them, and I think there are still some formats or encodings it doesn't recognize.
Another tool I have found useful are the PCE emulator tools (PRI, PFI, and PSI). They are command line tools, and much harder to use, but they are much more flexible, can find and decode any arbitrary sized sectors, and are great for automatically decoding images. However these tools are geared more for use with FM/MFM encoded disks.