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From: TLC (all posts)
Date: 2000-09-11
Subject: Re: Free blocks...
Hi!

> how can I calculate the free blocks of a D64 image? I read in the
> "Big Floppy Book" the following.
> On the 18th track, 0 sector is the BAM. There are 35 tracks, every
> track has a 4 bytes long entry, the first entry stars at the 4th byte
> of this sector. The first byte of every entry contains number of free
> blocks of its track. Simply sum these numbers and you will get
> the free blocks of a disk.
> But I always got bigger values than the amount of real free blocks.
> What is wrong?

Shouldn't be the problem, that you also include the number of free blocks on track 18?

L.

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