[Coco] Format DMK

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 14:44:13 EDT 2012


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:40 AM,  <hhos at ...> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> By disk format David Keil, also explained in Ira Goldklang's webside,
>> I think something's missing, of course I must be wrong, but still
>> continue.
>>
> I can't say that I understand the DMK file structure either, but whoever
> wrote this must have:
>
> http://dmklib.brouhaha.com/download/
>

Before trying to understand the DMK format, you really should know the
basics on how the tracks on a floppy disk are formatted.  The WD177x
data sheet is a good place to start:

<ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS/TANDY/HARDWARE/FLOPPY/WD177X.pdf>

Darren



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