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Re: [disklavier] Re: Disk Format for Disklavier

2002-10-24 by Carol Beigel

What is the purpose of the blank boot sector?  After writing a good boot 
sector on your (presumably original) PianoSoft disk, could it still play in 
a Mark II DKV or older?  What did the file extensions for the songs look 
like?  What did you write for the "good" boot sector?

Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...

>From: "midi_magic2000" <magic_midi@...>
>Reply-To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [disklavier] Re: Disk Format for Disklavier
>Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:47:58 -0000
>
>Hi Carol
>
>The Pianosoft disks have a blank Boot Sector. I used to use Norton
>Utils (a bit editor) in DOS to copy a good Boot Sector to the
>Pianosoft disk. That way the PC could read it. I also had a friend
>write a program for the Atari PC which did the same as DKVutils.
>
>Midi Magic


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