17 May
2005
17 May
'05
10:05 a.m.
What version are YOU running? My shareware version from the early 1990s
clearly can't do all that you describe.
Christian Corti wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
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Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
Teledisk: works with MFM disks only, file format
not published, limited
Well, that's not true at all.
1.
TeleDisk works fine with FM *and* MFM disks, even with mixed coding,
sector sizes and densities (IBM System/34 format, track 0 side 0 FM 26
sect., 128 bytes/sect., additional directory tracks MFM 26 sect., 256
bytes/sect., data tracks e.g. 8 sect.,1024 bytes/sect.), supports normal
and deleted address marks, will read bad sectors anyway, stores sector
ID fields as read (important for CBM 1581 disks with swapped head IDs)
and so on. TeleDisk archives and restores everything your combination of
FDC and FDD can do. For example I have a Multi I/O controller card with
an FDC that supports 128 bytes/sect. MFM. This makes it possible to
archive Robotron A5120 UDOS diskettes.
2.
The file format has been reverse-engineered some time ago. See
http://www.fpns.net/willy/wteledsk.htm for more information (it's not my
site!).
Christian