franco@iuvax.UUCP (03/12/87)
This may have been mentioned before but it is interesting enough to be repeated. The latest version of STart contains a program called twister which fast-formats a disk to 400k. Although the format used seems to be a bit slower than the fast formats developed earlier, the fact that the new fast formatted disk contains 400k makes this, in my opinion, the preferred ST formatter. I am not sure why the authors of twister set their formatter to 400k when 410k can easily be achieved. The following hacks to the executable will change twister to a 410k twister: The single occurrence of HEX 0320 should be changed to 0334 The single occurrence of HEX 0640 should be changed to 0668 The single occurrence of HEX 0050 should be changed to 0052 (in third sector) I would like to be able to compile the source code provided but twister.h and twster.rsh were not provided on the disk (therefore a megamax resource construction set is needed to create these files - and I and thousands of others do not have this). I sure wish that people that sent sources would do a thorough job of it, particulary if the sender is receiving payment. I realize that I can create those files given sufficient time but why do I have to?