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From: "Phil" <accession@...>

> <***Sorry to everyone for the boring (ie. irrelevant) OT thread at the
> moment.> :-)))

What do you mean, "at the moment"? :)

> A post I recieved on the Atari topic from another list said:
>
> "...Yes.  PC will read Atari disks formatted on Atari TOS 1.04 or higher
if
> you used the standard built in formatter.  I know midifiles and notator SL
> and logic files come out ok.  So do .TXT files, JPG, GIF and other picture
> files.  Files that are application dependent don't work of course."
>
> So I can only assume that Atari made a change for the outwards
compatibility
> later down the track.

Ah, I see. So they did at least one thing right at Atari. :)

I think the whole issue was that Atari wanted to use MS-DOS format disks,
but were afraid that Microsoft would sue them if they used the same format -
so they changed this one byte. Isn't intellectual property nice?

- Peter