

The sectors then follow, stored in cylinder/head/sector order. If this is 0, assume it is 0x200.Īfter the header, an ASCII comment may follow. +18 DW Sector number of root directory (ie, count of sectors used by This is probably less than the number ofĬlusters the disc can hold, since empty clusters at the end are not +13 DW Sector number of first cluster (ie, count of sectors used by boot The number of sectors per cluster, minus 1. (In fact, LOADDSKF accepts any magic number in the rangeĥ8AAh-5AAAh, but these are the ones SAVEDSKF generates).

+0 DW magic Ġx58AA => Older format (no compression), with sector dataīeginning at fixed offset 0x200 rather than immediatelyĪfter the comment. The following information is from a forum post.

So, uncompressed files can be converted to raw FAT/ IMA format by deleting the header, and appending padding if needed. The LoadDskF documentation says "all diskette sectors are written up to and including the highest occupied data sector".
