Silly, maybe, but a complete reverse-engineering of that partition would be helpful for many reasons. There have been posts on this BBS by the Cambridge guys, suggesting that it's a fairly simple format and it shouldn't be all that hard to suss out.

Or they could just, *gasp* supply us with the format...

In the past, the justification for not doing so was that it wouldn't be worthwhile to do so since the format changes so much. With that in mind, reverse-engineering it and then writing something which depends on that format wouldn't be any more productive. Why can't they just give us a spec?