Article View: net.micro.atari16
Article #1304Re: Double-sided disk format and fonts
From: Allan Pratt
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1986 18:09
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1986 18:09
18 lines
1666 bytes
1666 bytes
Double-sided disks are in the same logical format as single-sided disks: the logical sector numbers all have the same interpretation. The difference is physical: the sectors are laid out on alternating sides. Logical sectors 0 to 8 are Track 0, Head 0, Sector 1 through Sector 9. Then you go to the Head 1 for logical 9 to 17, and back to Head 0 on the next track for 18 to 24. Since the disk is bigger, the FAT is usually larger, or the cluster size larger, or both, so you should be careful to interpret the information in the boot sector correctly (sectors per fat, sectors per cluster, etc). About Fonts: There was a font-loader accessory from a magazine (Antic?) which actually overwrote the font information in RAM. This worked only under RAM TOS (obviously). I am not familiar with font loaders for ROM TOS, except that they exist. Perhaps somebody else on the net can speak up? /----------------------------------------------\ | Opinions expressed above do not necessarily | -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. | reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. | ...lll-lcc!atari!apratt \----------------------------------------------/
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<401@atari.UUcp>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!aprattShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUcp (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: Double-sided disk format and fonts Message-ID: <401@atari.UUcp> Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 14:09:54 EDT Article-I.D.: atari.401 Posted: Fri Jul 25 14:09:54 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 05:24:58 EDT Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18 Keywords: same as single-sided, ROM TOS