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

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote:
>> A long time ago, in France...
>> It was a dark and stormy night ((c) Schulz),
>> It was about 18-sec protections,
>> It was in 1988...
>> 
>> @ http://boutillon.free.fr/Underground/Cours/Cours_GDF/Gdf19/Gdf19.html
>> 
>> antoine
>> 
>> ps. I hope you read French ;-)
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't. ;-(
> 
> 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. 
> 

Yep, they are called "macro-sectors." I translated the part of that "lesson"
that explains how they work. (see my most previous news article)

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