1.44Mb

ZXNet echo conference «real.speccy»

From Alexander Kormishin To All 9 January 1999


Hello, All!

Here is the subject support for you.

out of all the variety of msdos-trdos copiers, there was only
one (!), which is configured on the disk. all the rest are tailored
for 720/360 k.

in the copier ("IBMRead") I changed the sector reading there (it was in
#3d13), sharpened it for HD and added work with two drives,
may the author forgive me.
the program is made in bass, so it slows down terribly (but copies).
disk errors do not process.

formatter (HF) - currently tailored for 1.44M and 1.2M. Soon
everything else will be there. trying to process errors.

But I need your help. The fact is that recently
I formatted a 1.6M disk (160 tracks, 10 sectors
1024 bytes each) did not want to be read on the offtopic... this despite
the fact that the above copier reads it perfectly.

Maybe someone knows what the problem might be? Or
make a program for the offtopic that can format
MSDOS disks with 1024-byte sectors, I'll figure it out myself.
If no one helps me, then the 1.6M and 1.76M formats
made by this formatter ("HF"), we can read/write
only on our own, on Speck. it's a pity...

In principle, you can support not only MSDOS. If you have
specific proposals, supported by sensible documents, then
don’t be silent.


P.S. programs are not for use, but only for testingschemes.


Goodbye, All.

[ Team ZX-HSC'84 ]