17 May
2005
17 May
'05
10:31 a.m.
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:05 PM
What version are YOU running? My shareware version
from the early 1990s
clearly can't do all that you describe.
Christian Corti wrote:
The problem is in the hardware don't blame teledisk for poor PC hardware. I
keep a Compaq 575e (P100) just because it handles FM.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
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