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Preserving at the highest resolution provides the most accurate preservation, it's as simple as that... otherwise we would all be ripping CD's as 8 bit 22.1KHz samples.
Perhaps you are not familiar with decoding data that has been shifted (magnetically), and how it can be extracted/corrected as the original data. This requires and extremely high resolution sample to get the signal orders.
With the information provided, anyone can control the SuperCard Pro hardware directly to step tracks, turn on/off the drive motor, read/write flux, etc. and a USB port is not required for controlling it. You can not control the Kryoflux hardware directly as that information is not publciy available, and there is no way to access it by any means except USB.
The .scp image file format is also open for everyone to use, and because of this there are many programs that support it. If you feel compelled to use the Kryoflux image format you can use the HxC Floppy Drive Emulator software to convert between .raw and .scp formats. Keir's utils can also control the SuperCard Pro hardware and output in various formats.
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