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2026-03-11 18:54 UTC

@everythingalsocan@techhub.social Which concrete format(s) did you use? Has MS-DOS/DR-DOS/Windows/OS/2 been able to use these?

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@everythingalsocan@techhub.social 2026-03-12 02:19

@3rz@freiburg.social Oh dear, I hope my memory is not playing tricks on me. What I remember is that VGA-Copy used sector interleaving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving_(disk_storage) which was said to speed up disk access. I can't find any documentation that claims VGA-Copy had this feature, though. Other than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting which states that programs such as VGA-Copy used techniques such as interleaving sectors. On the other hand, Wikipedia states that VGA-Copy offered to format 1.44M disks with a capacity of 1.7M, which I don't remember. All I remember is that everyone (well, the few school friends who had a computer at the time) used VGA-Copy because of its cool interface and because it made disks faster.

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