Re: format difference between a 4040 and a 1541

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:42:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4305168.3T5rpR7ggn_at_rakete>

Am Sonntag, 28. September 2025, 13:14:30 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
ruud_at_baltissen.org:
> Hallo Francesco,
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I don't know the details anymore. What I can tell is that
> there is a difference in gap length and IIRC the one of the 4040 is one
> byte longer. If you want more details, have a look at "Inside Commodore
> DOS", https://archive.org/details/Inside_Commodore_Dos_1984_Datamost_a .
> That's how I learned things.

a couple details can be perhaps derived from this file:

https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/vice/src/diskimage/
diskimage.c

let me know when you see something that is wrong :)

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