[Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Wed Jan 9 23:34:43 EST 2008


Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Can you be more specific?  I'm curious, since a copy-protected game would have
> to assume a single-sided system, I'd think, since that's what a stock CoCo
> originally came with.  So, why should the game care whether DIR 2 accesses a
> different drive, or the back side of drive zero?
> 
> Art

It's probably a game where the sector headers have been changed to read 
both side 0 and side 1, even though the disk is single sided. That's 
still no reason for the topic of this thread.



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