The first 24k are the screen image, followed by the DOS image. The boot loader has been replaced with one designed to load the screen image, and otherwise changed from the SAMDOS one to allow it to load the DOS from any side (SAMDOS only loaded from the first side of the disk, IIRC, which is yet one more why you had to put it on the disk first).
They're not always the same though; each one will have a different screen image on it. The idea was kind of to have a kind of magazine "cover", but to allow the full 799.5k of the disk to be used for other things without any space being used for DOS or that screen. This was before compression became commonly available, which is why it was useful. Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 6:57 AM Subject: RE: AJ Incorporates Demodisks > Simon Cooke wrote: > > MaxiDOS was an old experiment of mine that pretty much *only* AJ got > > copies of, so it's worth saving for posterity's sake (if you care :-)). > > Agreed (and I do!) > > Are the extra MaxiDOS tracks always the same? If so, once we've got the > working tracks from one (Dan might be looking into that), I can graft it > onto the images that are missing them. After that we'll be up to having AJ > disks 1 and 4-8 available. > > Si > >
