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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need Program to Read C64 Floppies on IBM PC
Message-ID: <19450053@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 9 May 90 19:42:44 GMT
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As far as I can remember, I think you aunt is stuck !

I seem to remember that the C64 disk drive records data in a
format that have variable number of sectors per track. The
outer tracks have more sector, and the inner ones have less.
The PC's disk format is fixed number of sectors per track.

And the PC doesn't have very intimate control over the drive
(I could be wrong given that there are so many different
copy protection schemes which do screwy stuff with the disk).
So, will not ba able to vary the number of sectors on the fly.
So .........

The last time I helped somebody port her thesis written on the
C64 was to hook a C64 with serial port to the PC and transfer
the files over. .... Believe me, if you were ever going to do
that, you'll never want to go back the serial line the other
direction.  :-)


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