Re: Using both sides of DS DD disks

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Dave:

Would this explain the "dual format" Trackstar 128 v6.2 5.25 floppy?

Supposedly, part of it can be read by a PC and part of it can only be read
by an Apple ][ already booted into DOS 3.3, all done without turning the
disk over.

Do PC drives R/W from the top also?


Frank


"Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
news:apsqvl$ite$1@acme.gcfn.org...
> Greg Weston (gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com) wrote:
>
> : It's worth noting at this point that Apple II 5.25" drives write on the
> : "wrong" side. If you have a single-sided disk, the label side is the
> : one that was tested, but Apple II drives wrote to the bottom of an
> : inserted floppy.
>
> I wondered when someone would bring this up...
>
> It made for some interesting dual-format disks.  Somewhere I have a
> Hallmark animated greeting card that was sold to work on either an Apple
> ][ or on an Atari 800.  Either way, you stick the disk in the same way
> because Apple's R/W head is on the bottom but Atari's R/W head was on top.