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Posted by: CIH
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May,22.2005-03:03
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Confining a diskmag to a 720k DS disk is not only looking to the past, it is a step back further from that!
The oldskool diskzines not only used every trick to compress the filesize down as far as they could, they also used every trick to squeeze as much out of the disks that they used. The most notorious being the 11 sector monsters yielding the best part of 900k, that Rich Karsmakers ST News used. Of course, you had to be pretty damn sure that your floppy was decent enough to take that! When I did the ST version of Maggie, I didn't go that far, but something like 80 sectors/10 tracks/800-odd k was routine.
I guess that some people are talking 720k max, because it is sort of impossible to transfer weird custom formats which yield useful extra space from the PC to ST. So if we limit to DS DD, then we are actually worse off now than we were in 1990!?
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