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1.88 I believe was the best version. It existed about 20 years ago, and it was a DOS program. You just had to add a 11-12kb stub memory wise in either config.sy
by onept88 8y ago
1.88 I believe was the best version. It existed about 20 years ago, and it was a DOS program. You just had to add a 11-12kb stub memory wise in either config.sys or autoexec.bat. Or both, but it worked. Any 1.44 disk could hold 1.88 without compression.
- int_19h 8y agoCloser to 30 years, I think, since the underlying hardware in form of 1.44 Mb 3.5" floppies showed up in mid-80s. I remember using this in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)
- rzzzt 8y agoNFormat, another custom formatting tool shows up in Adrian Black's video, demonstrating that these also work with floppy emulators: https://youtu.be/Lw0JV4TypSo https://youtu.be/Lw0JV4TypSo http://toastytech.com/files/nformat.html http://toastytech.com/files/nformat.html
- eps 8y agoIt worked for brand-name disks (Maxwell?), but 1.88 on floppies from no-name vendors was inevitably a game of luck. Formatting and writing them was OK, but more often than not reading them back didn't work.
- maxell 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxell
- puzzle 8y agoThe Amiga had 880KB (DD) or 1760KB (HD, with a special drive) floppies, but instead of increasing track count, it had more sectors (11) in each of the 80 tracks.