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- *** Some info regarding !Formatter V1.1 ***
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- Author: J.J.A. van Gink
- Copyright: Der Hansie Developments
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- Formats supported:
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- * Old ADFS (640 Kbytes, type 'L')
- * New ADFS, old directories (800 Kbytes, type 'D')
- * New ADFS, new directories (800 Kbytes, type 'E')
- * MS-DOS (720 Kbytes, version 3.30)
- * DOS-II
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- Formatting a disk in any of the formats will take up 65 seconds. Verifying
- the disk takes up 32 seconds.
- For comparison: the format on the MS-DOS emulator takes up 194 seconds...
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- DOS-II is a joint venture of D.H.D. and L.I.C. and was designed mainly to be
- able to exchange data between Archimedes and Sinclair computers.
- The disk is formatted as 10 sectors of 512 bytes each per track, numbered
- 1 through 10, with a formatted capacity of 795 Kbytes.
- The system includes subdirectories (up to 32) which do NOT take up extra
- disk space. For more information on this disk system, contact either D.H.D.
- of L.I.C.
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- As mentioned in the program itself, I am always interested in more often
- used formats for this program. All I need is disk formatted in the format
- you want...
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- The author will take no responsability whatsoever for any damage resulting
- from loss of data from disks formatted with this program. All formatting is
- done at own risk.
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- Happy formatting!
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