8 Nov
1997
8 Nov
'97
5:44 p.m.
Doug Spence wrote:
I've actually got a 5.25" disk drive for it
now, too. It can read C= 1541
disks into a .dsk file for emulators in about 12 seconds, which is pretty
cool. And Apple ][ disks in about 17 seconds (must be lamer programming).
Too bad I don't have anything to WRITE to those formats, though I suspect
writing to a 1541 format wouldn't work.
Lamer disk format. There's a delay when reading Apple disks due to the
need
to determine where each track actually starts, since Apple ignored the
sector
detect hole. Yes, I understand why Woz made that decision.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]