Date   : Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:03:27 +0100
From   : hick@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Re: ADFS Format Tool

In message <03.200004261453.PAA20974@...>,
          t.harte@... (Thomas Harte) wrote:

> According to the front of the manual, PRES. But according to inside the
> manual, the ROMs, and therefore the filing system are originally copyright

It's fairly obvious physically the difference, the AP3 plugs into the Plus
1 (or deritive), the Plus 3 is a complete expansion of its own.

> Acorn, although they've updated them from version 1.0 to version 1.2,

Sounds like a AP3.

> allegedly fixing some bugs and lowering PAGE. Although PAGE is still at
> &1D00, so I don't like to think what it used to be.

No, no lowering of PAGE - that is normal ADFS. The only low PAGE ADFS is
ACP/PRES's E00 ADFS, which uses 2 banks of SWR.

> to know about this model, you don't know anywhere I can get documentation on
> the tape file format used by this utility? I can't see anything at any of

Sorry, no.

> Yep, my mistake, seems to be single sided rather than single density. Either
> way I only get about 325kb storage once formatted at 80 tracks. Or maybe one
> of the heads is broken in my drive.

Doubt it, the Acorn Plus 3 only came with a single sided drive and I'm
fairly sure ACP/PRES followed suit ... at least to begin with.