Re: Some way to see if my 1.44 MB disk format is Superdrive compatible?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:

>I have in my emulator code that will allow me to use a 1.4 MB disk as
>a ProDOS block device.  It takes a disk overlaid with an MS-DOS format
>and reinitializes it for ProDOS, with a total of 2880 blocks (the
>geometry is 2 heads, 80 tracks, 18 sectors, 512 bytes per sector; no
>software interleave; flip heads between tracks � la MS-DOS).

That is beautiful.  It should be SuperDrive and BlueDisk compatible
I should think for the same reason that I can format an MS-DOS
1.44MB disk under the PC Transporter connected through a
SuperDrive card and it would read on a real PC.

The ProDOS 1.44MB format is MFM encoded making it compatible
with PC drives.

This is very cool.  Implement support of this for a Zip disk and it
would be even more cool.

Actually, I remember there was a program called ProCopy for the
PC which will allow a PC to read a 1.44MB ProDOS disks created
with a SuperDrive for this same reason.