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Re: "Star Wars" demo?
David Empson wrote:
> > > It occupied all of a Apple 40SC Hard Drive, and used a patched ProDOS to
> > > get over the 32mb partition limit. As mentioned by Leif, it was put
> > > together to demo the new Apple High Speed SCSI Card's DMA ability and
> >
> > Okay, here we see it again.. Prodos patch for the 32kb limit!
>
> Ah, the old myth rears its head again.
>
> ProDOS-8 has never been patched to support more than 32MB, to my
> knowledge. Doing this is next to impossible, as P8 has a fixed block
> size of 512 bytes, and uses a 16-bit block number, which limits you to
> 65535 * 0.5K = 32767.5KB per disk.
I know about the 512 bytes block size, but I just HOPED there was a patch
so that larger blocks would be allowed... :)
-= Doede =-
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