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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading 1581 disks
Message-ID: <439@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 90 06:33:23 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.155300.25903@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <26fac73f-2c9c.1comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> <1990Sep24.173635.2012@bushido.uucp>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Sep24.173635.2012@bushido.uucp> jamesb@bushido.uucp (Jim Harvey) writes:
>The TRANSFER utility program that comes with the ReadySoft C64 Emulator II
>will do this.  It will also read a 1541 formatted disk in a 1020 drive, and
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>will read and write to a real 1541 drive with the use of an included adaptor.

Is this REALLY true? With all the track-to-track read speed changes in
the 1541 format? How do they manage that? Is the data density on a 1541
so small compared to an Amiga or PC that these variations can be easily
followed by the decoding software? Sounds very interesting.

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