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Subject: SpartaDOS X question
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Date: 28 Feb 89 00:47:00 GMT
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   Over the past weekend I baught the new SpartaDOS X cart. and have
a question about it.  It is supposed to support the 1050 drive with
the UD Doubler (among other drives).  Naturally, I wanted to see how
much faster the us doubler was (up to now, I have only used the doubler
double density with MYDOS).  I formatted a disk with the high speed
sector skew (in SpartaDOS format).  I couldn't use the copy command to
move files onto the disk (it doesn't support disk swapping) so I had
to use the menu command (actually I have two drives, but one is at home
on a make-shift computer and the other one is at school on the 'real'
computer).  I put a machine language program onto the disk, and it did
seem to write it real (put that in itallics) quick.  Great, I thought,
and tried to run it.  Well, it loaded and then just sat there (great,
the worlds most advanced paperweight).  I thought I must have done
something wrong, because the program runs just fine off of the atari
dos disk.  I reformatted the disk, only this time I used the atari
format instead of the Sparta format (but I still used the high speed
sector skew).  It worked, but I didn't get the high speed loading...
Also, in both cases the file was shortened when it was copied.  I know
it is probably because the file was appended, the only problem is that
when I tried to copy it onto the Sparta format disk, it was shortened
MORE than when I copied it to the atari format disk.(?)  I would greatly
appriciate any help on this problem.  One of the main reasons I wanted
the cart. is for the high speed data transfer, aside from all of the
goodies in it.  Now might be a good time to bring up an old plea, if
anyone has a schematic for the 1200xl (ACK!) I would be willing to trade
some dead presidents for a copy of it....
                         Many thanks
                            Raymond Courtois
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