[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

Torsten Dittel Torsten at Dittel.info
Wed Jan 21 14:08:30 EST 2004


> Weird sized sectors (along with weird sector numbers, etc.) have been a
> popular device used in CoCo copy protection schemes.  Basic's BACKUP
> command won't work properly with such disks.

Wasn't "Graphicom" using a strange diskette format using 1024 Byte
sectors (which allows more to write on the disk because there's less
sync overhead)?

Torsten




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