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- From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
- Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:02:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <philip.714873752@labtam>
- References: <1730i0INNinf@agate.berkeley.edu> <9V5wPB1w164w@jwt.UUCP> <1992Aug25.073024.13293@ausom.oz.au> <1992Aug26.112324.6256@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- fisher2557@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
-
- >In an old issue of Nybble, there is a program that custom formats each track,
- >allowing 4k to be written to each track in one chunk. The denibblizing is done
- >"on the fly" so when it reaches the end of the "sector" (basically the whole
- >track is one giant sector) it is fully decoded and at the destination memory
- >address. This sucker can read in a whole disk, all 35 tracks, in 12.5 seconds.
-
- I thought it did better than that, actually. I know that the fastest that
- you can read or write a whole 5.25" disk is 8 seconds, which has already been
- achieved by the Locksmith copy program. I would have thought the Nibble
- program (which I assume is the FastTrax program used to store hi-res pictures)
- would have achieved that speed as well. But I could be wrong :-) It's being a
- while since I read that article...
-
- Philip Stephens
- Labtam Australia Pty Ltd
- philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au
-