> > > The Vector machines that I have seen have all been hard-sectored. I would
> > > LOVE to see a PC (running Teledisk, or ANY other software) be able to do
> > > anything at all except CHOKE on a hard-sectored disk.
> > Am I allowed to do some hardware hacking? I see no reason why a PC with a
> > suitable card could not read a hard-sectored disk....
> Of course I meant a stock unmodified PC, with "normal" hardware.
> But yes, I'd love to have you make disk controllers for PC that can handle
> hard sectored, GCR, etc. It's certainly quite doable, but there isn't
> much of a commercial market for them.
This sounds like a Catweasel controller, a device that does in fact read
many custom floppy formats. I know for sure it can read C64/128, which is
my primary interest in it.
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Received on Sun Sep 09 2001 - 21:35:19 BST