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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: is it possible to read/write Commodore disks on an IBM PC?
Summary: Transactor magazine...
Keywords: disks read write commodore ibm
Message-ID: <685@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 16:48:08 GMT
References: <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: den of sinister exaggerators -- houston.montrose
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In article <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group) writes:
>Does anyone have any software that will read/write/diskcopy/filecopy
>commodore format floppies on an ibm pc?  I want to download stuff
>to a IBM PC and then write them to floppies that commodore drives
>can read without getting someone else to download the stuff for me
>since I don't have a modem for the commodore.


There was an article in _Transactor_, back around the time that the
128's and 1571's came out, that dealt with using the mfm to read/write
off of a whole bunch o other formats...

[Five minutes later, our hero returns with an old copy of Transactor.]

Here we go:

"Table 1 is a summary of some of the common MFM disk formats.
The list is by no means complete, but can be used as a guide when
exploring various types of MFM disks.  It is worth noting that many
other brands of coputers use formats similar to those outlined in the
table.

Table 1: Summary Of 1571 Supported CP/M MFM Disk Formats

Osborne DD
Slicer
Epson Euro (SD)
Epson QX-10 (SD)
Epson QX-101 (DD)
IBM CP/M-86 SS
IBM CP/M-86 DS
Kaypro II
Kaypro IV

Other MFM Formats:
IBM-PC-DOS
1 side; 8 sector
2 side; 8 sector
1 side; 9 sector
2 side; 9 sector

TRS-80 DD
TRS-80 SD"

There's basic and PAL source examples for reading these disks with an
explanitory article dealing with MFM itself...

Let's see... this is the January 87 issue, Vol7 Issue4.  I really liked
Transactor when I used my C64 all the time.  I wish somebody would
make a magazine like it for the UNIX-PC...  Ah well...

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