/tags/disks/ Recent bookmarks tagged #disks Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:53 +0000 http://www.paradroid.net/diskimage "diskimage.c is an ANSI C library for manipulating Commodore disk images."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #c64 #diskimages #disks #retro</p> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:38:10 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12930 c64 diskimages disks retro 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 http://www.lexemetech.com/2008/03/disks-have-become-tapes.html "In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #disks #mapreduce #scaling #tapes</p> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:41:58 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:10530 disks mapreduce scaling tapes