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Post #2361104
2026-03-12 02:19 UTC
@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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@3rz@freiburg.social 2026-03-12 09:25
@everythingalsocan@techhub.social When I tried VGA Copy 6, I couldn’t find an option to do a “plain” formatting of disks - only copying & formatting at the same time.