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Reading/writing floppies for C64 and MS-Dos ???

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Michael A. Terrell
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Yea, but... the FDC emulation in the ASICs of modern PCs (read: virtually all Pentiums) does NOT suport deleted data records. Now you can write the software for reading and/or writing deleted records, but these FDCs simply do not support the commands and nothing seems to happen. I used to write "copy protection" software where data and programs were in the FAT and directory, used deleted records, and records with absurd track/sector numbers - so i might know a little about such things.

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Robert Baer

Thanks for the heads up.

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Robert Baer

Absolutely NOT! THe Commodore with the "magic" drive could read and write BOTH FORMATS because the drive itself had BOTH FDCs, programmable by the main computer (count: ONE).

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Robert Baer

Only the 1571 (360 kB, 5.25") & 1581 (720 kB, 3.5") drives could read or write to IBM formatted disks.

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