[Coco] Disk drive questions?

[John Murphy]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Disk drive questions?


>
> It depends on your definiton of modern.  Windows 2000, and Windows XP
> have removed the API that programs could use to read 256 byte sectored
> floppies.
>
> That API is known to work on DOS 2.x to 6.x, Windows 95, and Windows 98,
> and possibly Windows NT 4.0 and earlier.
>


Specifically, which API? Binaries still seem to work under 2K, XP. I say
"seem" because I haven't tested very recently, but I'm fairly certain I've
done this under one or the other. Possibly the binary used a different API?

John Murphy