Re: Toy Shop for Apple II available and a long story

[datawiz <rich.martin@gmail.com>]

On Jan 12, 5:27 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> I presume that there are not 18 separately addressable sectors, but rather
> a few large (>256 bytes) sectors that add up to 18 "sectors worth" of data.
> It sounds like only whole tracks are read.

Correct. The term 18-sector has always been a bit of a misnomer. There
aren't 18 individual sectors (if there were, you wouldn't be able to
fit it in the track), but it's the equivalent of 18-sectors of data in
the same track. In the case of the Broderbund protection, there's 6
sectors presented per track, but the read routines always read a
complete track at a time.

Vlad,
To create the NIB images, I used SST as it (and EDD) were the only bit
copiers I had that let me specify both source and destination disks on
different slots, so I could use my CFFA3000 (I LOVE THIS THING, btw!).

Antoine,
Thanks for the link to the 18-sector page. Even through babel fish, I
could understand it enough that it helped clear up some things in the
toy shop protection that I didn't understand completely.

Rich