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   Skybuck Flying to All   
   Reading/writing floppies for C64 and MS-   
   30 Sep 08 10:02:10   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi, sci.electronics.design   
   From: BloodyShame@hotmail.com   
      
   http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind/   
      
   Kinda interesting.   
      
   This describes marking sectors as bad in an interleaved fashion so it might   
   work on C64 and MS-Dos... fat 12 floppies ?   
      
   Question is... does it actually work ?   
      
   Makes me wish I still had a C64 to try it out ! :)   
      
   Anyway how much thruth is there in this story...   
      
   I think C64 floppies worked by burning something onto it... while PC   
   floppies work with magnetic stuff ?   
      
   Or am I mistaken in that part ? ;)   
      
   Or is this just a software only trick ? Hmm...   
      
   Bye,   
     Skybuck.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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