Eric Smith wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:Also, can a PC floppy deal with half- and quarter-tracks?A high density (1.2M) drive should be able to read half-tracks, since it has 96 tracks per inch rather than the nominal 48 TPI used by the Disk II. No quarter-tracks, though, without modifying the drive.
That sounds right. Even on a Disk ][ quarter tracks require holding two adjacent phases on simultaneously (half-stepping). I wouldn't expect that the stepper "resolution" has improved unnecessarily, and half-step support would be surprising. -michael NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."