> Simon Cooke wrote: > > Make that "only if track 4, sector 1 contains "BOOT" (last > > character has bit 7 set) as bytes 124-127. > > > > That'll handle games too. > > Thanks for the info Si - never knew about that signature. I was gonna dig > that out of the SAMDOS/MasterDOS source but I'd not got around to it. > Certainly much easier to locate that sector than have to bother scanning > directory structures too. > > I just had a look at SAMDOS and Prince of Persia, and it seemed to be from > offset 256 in the sector instead of 124 - is the offset not fixed? > > Si
I think we should look to ROM code. There is the code which decides, whether a diskette is bootable or not.
