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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MS-DOS
Message-ID: <11618@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 08:35:33 GMT
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In <7240@crash.cts.com> crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) writes:
>   I was happy with my understanding that the GS 3.5" drive could not
>read/write MFM until it hit me that the PCT board from AE uses the GS 3.5"
>drive for MS-DOS. Can someone please enlighten me?

	I don't have a PC Transporter (and don't want one!), so the
following is just going to be conjecture:

	It doesn't actually read/write MFM.. It's simply a "pseudo" MS-DOS.

	In theory the same thing as UniDOS and AmDOS (etc), the "DOS 3.3"
for 3.5" drives..  To programs that don't read/write at the block level,
they work fine in their ignorant assumption that they're running off of a
5.25" drive...  (It sucks how a bunch of old file games explicitly have
slot 6 in their program and thus can't be put on a 3.5" disk w/out major
hacking)

	By the way, anybody have any plans to put any of the following on
3.5" disk:  Wings of Fury, Rescue Raiders, Short Circuit, or Ultima V?

	With those on 3.5" disks, I think I'd get rid of 80% of my
virtually nil 5.25" disk usage..
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