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Al Kossow

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Macworks Plus boot disk format
« on: February 20, 2023, 12:44:54 pm »

Did Sun Remarketing change the boot disk format to something other than Monitor?
I just Ul'ed some images to http://bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/macworksPlus and
noticed the boot disks aren't recognized by applesauce as Pascal disks
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/macworksPlus/macworksplus_boot_1.1H_cp2.dc42
is kind of fun. I sounds like a Mac when it boots
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Re: Macworks Plus boot disk format
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2023, 01:43:54 pm »


noticed the boot disks aren't recognized by applesauce as Pascal disks
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/macworksPlus/macworksplus_boot_1.1H_cp2.dc42
I ran this disk image thru Spyglass and it reports it as Lisa Monitor format, but won't show a catalog: https://macgui.com/spyglass/r/3775f38fc3a22828
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Re: Macworks Plus boot disk format
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2023, 01:52:47 pm »

Is the content on Page 8 of this document relevant here?

https://lisa.sunder.net/MacWorks_Plus_Technical_Overview_by_Chuck_Lukaszewski3.pdf
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Re: Macworks Plus boot disk format
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2023, 02:39:50 pm »

Did Sun Remarketing change the boot disk format to something other than Monitor?

IIRC, the MW+/II floppy boot disk is just code... a boot block followed by contiguous blocks loaded into memory and called.
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