>> Note also that current DPB assigns one byte for the number of entries in
>> the root directory. ZIP disks use 512! This is another reason for extend
DPB.
>How is the format of ZIPdisks? Is it also a DOSFAT12/16 system?
Of course! Everything over which you can perform a DIR comand works with
FAT12 or 16 (32?) (apart from CD-ROM or anything having own driver)
>> I don't like the idea of modifying MSX work area...
>it is only two bytes and I believe there is still some unused space
>(somewhere near #FFFx ? or are all these addresses used for V9938/58
>register readback?)
Yes but this is very dangerous. We must be REALLY SURE that the used
location is not used for anything by the system or other programs.
>There are also a lot of hookentries which are probably never used (or only
>the first 3 bytes of it for a jp) I think there are a lot of other
>possibilities...
Don't touch hooks please!! You can never know who, why and when could these
hooks be used!
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"In Windows 98, 3.000 found failures of W95 have been corrected..."
Translation: 3.000.000 not found failures continue without being corrected...
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