/tags/badsectors/ Recent bookmarks tagged #badsectors Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:55 +0000 http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind "The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #badsectors #c64 #commodore #disks #filesystems #gaming #geek #hacks #ibm #pc #retro #vintage</p> Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:11:46 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:11624 badsectors c64 commodore disks filesystems gaming geek hacks ibm pc retro vintage