Re: Reverse engineering a "13/16 boot"

[Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

Once upon a time, Apple has announced their disk drive, compatible with 13-sec disks then, really sooner than excepted, Apple has decided to switch to 16-sec disks.

Software publishers where going into a dead end: shall our software be for all (16 and 13-sec people) or limited to to 13-sec people (Washington Apple II people, raise your hands)

As far as this is concerned, this is just a matter of track 0 formatting. In 99% of the cases, a max of 10 sectors is/are concerned, therefore one can add a 13-sec boot1 sector when the standard is 16-sec.

I knew I have to write something about it !
antoine