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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: RE: fast multi-sector floppy I/O with interrupts (question)
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Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 13:11:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 22 13:11:36 1987
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in article <8707211216.AA01884@work1.icase>, csrobe@ICASE.ARPA
(Charles S. Roberson) says:
>     they say the Atari is "adopting the twister file format"

I can't speak for the "twister" format specifically, but Atari *has*
adopted a disk format where tracks start at different locations on
the disk.  Note that there is still a skew factor of zero, meaning
the sectors within a track are sequential.  I don't know what the
offset from sector 0 of one track to sector 0 of another is, but
I guess I could find out...

The new format is the one you get if you select "Format..." from the
Disk menu on the desktop when you have Mega ROMs.  I don't know how it
could be more official. 


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