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fadden <
thefadden@gmail.com> wrote:
> For that matter, I can`t remember seeing 40-track images in which the last
> 5 tracks were actually used.
I pretty regularly formatted disks on my DuoDisk to 38 tracks. Any more
than that was unreliable as the stepper ran out of range. A special
disk-formatting program that put down the extra tracks made these trivial to
create and use under ProDOS. I don`t know of an equivalent for DOS 3.3, but
as I only used DOS 3.3 when I had to, I didn`t care.
It`s doubtful that any commercial software would`ve shipped on disks with
more than 35 tracks, except maybe as part of a copy-protection scheme.
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