[Coco] Floppy access from within XP

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Mon Jan 17 18:13:51 EST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>

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> And that brings us back to the first problem in that the operating
> system has removed that support, so even if the emulated disk supported
> it, there still is no documented way for an application to read and
> write non-512 byte sectors.

Documented, no, but it's still absolutely do-able. The hardware is still
there so the software can still get at it, it's just that without DOS you
need to write a lot more code. But I don't want to do it!

Neil





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