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- From: bjgrier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier)
- Subject: Re: Spectre & TT
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- Sender: grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier)
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:48:35 GMT
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- > I use floppy disks with Spectre 3.0 on my TT, all the time. But
- > before I can do that, I have to perform a little voodoo, as follows:
-
- > 1. Turn off CPU cache.
- > 2. From the Atari desktop, format a *double density* floppy.
- > 3. Launch Spectre.
-
- > After that, I can read, write and format GCR disks without problems.
- > This works _every time_ on my TT, and at least one other that I know of.
-
- According to Dave Small, on GEnie, you should not need to format
- a double density floppy, but you do need to access one. According
- to Dave this causes TOS to set the floppy controller to the required
- density. Just thought I'd pass this along. However I can not confirm
- this as I own Spectre 128 not GCR.
-
- Brian J. Grier
- Bell Northern Research
- Research Triangle Park, NC
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