neil@hwcs.UUCP (10/01/87)
Here is a fast disk format comparison:
TWISTER & DCFORMAT:
Track 0: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A
Track 1: 07 08 09 0A 01 02 03 04 05 06
Track 2: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 01 02
Disk X's format:
Track 0: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A
Track 1: 08 09 0A 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Track 2: 05 06 07 08 09 0A 01 02 03 04
The sector skewed format on Disk X is faster than Twister.
Will this work on all drives or will it miss sector 1 on some and thus become
an ultra slow format? If it's OK why are all fast formats not done this way?
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Questions for Atari & Comms wizards
A month or two back Allan Pratt said that he had just put ALN (a great linker
with relmod combined) on Compuserve and registered developers could download
it. The name Compuserve meant nothing to our comms experts here so how can we
get our hands on it? We are registered developers with Atari UK who haven't
told us about the 4.14 upgrade yet. Also has Landon Dyer completed his new
68000 assembler yet? When will the official Pexec Cookbook be posted?
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