On 04/01/2018 04:30, Mia Magnusson wrote: > It seems like with this it could be possible to make a special CBM-II > version of MS-DOS that is as compatible with PC as the stock MS-DOS 3.3 > (except for defragmentation utilities and similar stuff) but with the > possibility to use more of the disks for DOS. Choose a combination of > tracks, sectors and sides that gives a total number of sectors that > line up good with the number of sectors that's on a CBM disk. It shouldn't be that difficult to get MSDOS to boot off a non standard disk. You don't even need the source code to format a non standard disk https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/075/Q75131/, although doing that with only one drive would be impractical. Norton utilities (defrag, undelete etc) should be happy with it (some versions of it will work with ansi.sys/bios output) as it should get the geometry from MSDOS. Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2018-01-04 12:00:03
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