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- A Complete Disk Format Utility
- by Mike Mitchell
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- Copyright (c) 1988 by
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- Catspaw Software Systems
- P.O. Box 362
- Garden City, MI 48135
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- USER SUPPORT:
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- Catspaw Software Systems Formatter (hereafter referred to as
- CSSFORMAT) is User Supported Software (Shareware). If you find
- this program useful and decide to keep and use it, please
- compensate the author for his time and effort by sending $3.00 to
- register or $6.00 to register and receive source code. Just fill
- out the registration form at the end of this file and send it to:
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- Catspaw Software Systems
- P.O. Box 362
- Garden City, MI 48135
- ATTN: CSSFORMAT
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- CSSFORMAT may be copied and distributed freely provided it is not
- modified and this documentation is included along with the
- program.
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- CSSFORMAT may NOT be included with any other product for any
- reason whatsoever without the written permission of the author.
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- LANGUAGE:
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- CSSFORMAT was written and compiled using GFA Basic by GFA
- Systemtechnik from Michtron, Inc. 576 South Telegraph Road
- Pontiac, MI 48053 Phone (313)-334-5700
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- OPERATION:
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- To run the CSSFORMAT program, just double-click the filename. In
- a moment the title/work screen will appear. You can exit the
- program by clicking on the exit box.
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- OPTIONS:
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- The format options you have to pick from are, Sides, Number of
- Tracks, Number of Sectors per Track, Drive, and Number of Sectors
- per Fat Table.
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- * Sides, This option is easy to understand, 1=Single sided
- and 2=Double sided. Just click on either box.
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- * Number of Tracks, This option has three selections to pick
- from. 80 Tracks, 82 Tracks and USER. The first two are
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- simple enough, let's look at the USER option. Click on the USER
- box and another selection box will appear. You can now pick from
- 20 to 86 tracks. Holding down the left mouse button on the UP or
- DOWN box and the number of tracks will increase or decrease in
- slow mode. Holding down the right button will give the user fast
- mode.
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- Special Note, Not all ST drives will do 86 tracks, I have the old
- Epson drives (the ones with the square eject button on the right
- hand side) and they will format up to 84 tracks with no problem.
- Using an extended track format over 82 tracks all the time may
- knock your drive head(s) out of alignment.
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- * Sectors per Track, Here you also have three options to pick
- from 9 Sectors, 10 Sectors and USER. The USER option works
- just like the one in the number of tracks except that you will
- be able to pick from 1 to 11 sectors per track.
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- Special Note, 11 sectors per track formats can be unstable and can
- not be read by the desk top. I do not recommend it's use. Try
- using 10 sectors per track with 82 tracks per disk.
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- * Drives, I really don't think I have to explain this option.
- Click on the A box to format drive A: and the B box to format
- drive B:.
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- * Number of Sectors per Fat, Here's the best part of all.
- The Atari desk top format always has 5 sectors per FAT table
- with two FAT tables per disk. After reading about the Atari
- disk layout I found that you don't need 5 sectors per FAT. I
- won't go into detail on why but I will tell you this, if you
- are formatting Single sided disks all you need is 2 sectors per
- FAT, Double sided you will need no more than 3 sectors per FAT.
- This will free up 2 to 3 more sectors for data.
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- UPDATES:
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- Registered users of CSSFORMAT will receive program updates for
- $2.00 to cover shipping and handling. If an update becomes
- available the user will be notified by mail.
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- BUGS:
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- The CSSFORMAT program has been beta tested for over a month now
- and has performed without a hitch. If you locate a problem,
- please report it to me at the address below with a note outlining
- the steps needed to recreate it.
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- Michael J. Mitchell -- CIS #76656,101 -- GEnie M.J.Mitchell
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- Catspaw Software Systems
- P.O. Box 362
- Garden City, MI 48135
- ATTN: CSSFORMAT Support
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- For more information on the Atari disk structure and how the
- format works try,
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- ST Disk Drives, Inside and Out - Abacus Software/Books
- P.O. Box 7219
- Grand Rapids, MI 49510
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- GFA Basic Book - Michtron, Inc.
- 576 South Telegraph Road
- Pontiac, MI 48053
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- Disk Doctor - Antic Publishing/The Catalog
- 524 Second Street
- San Francisco, CA 94107
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- [ ] Register CSSFORMAT ____________________________________ $3.00
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- [ ] Register CSSFORMAT and receive source code ____________ $6.00
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- If you belong to a user group, please fill out the section below
- to help us get our software to all the Atari enthusiasts around.
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