At 10:29 AM 6/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>"Evil Empire?" == Use the Farce, Duke! == First, if you have an Atari ST,
>(and I think TOS 1.4 or above... getting my ST next weekend! Wheeeee! ;-)
>it can read/write/format PC floppies.
The atari ST could always (well, production models on, anyway) read/write PC
floppies. Formatting, however, was initially a problem. It seems there's
an unused field somewhere in the admin stuff on a pc floppy that Atari
figured didn't matter. So they left it blank. But, for some reason, IBM
machines needed some value in there. (I'm probably way oversimplifying, and
making errors...)
So floppies formatted on the atari worked fine on the atari, but if you
wanted to use the floppy on both machines, you needed to format it on the PC
(or use a third party formatter that fixed the problem.) Some later version
of TOS (1.4?) fixed this.
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Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 13:29:46 BST