Re:Writing a Bootloader
by jerrysievert on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:28PM
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For me, alignment problems on the 1541 were fairly common (there was a lot of head thrashing when trying to read "protected" disks), which ended up with the 1541 cover being easily removable for me, and always a screwdriver nearby to recalibrate.
He downloaded it and ran it... and his floppy drive started playing music. After playing with it for a while, he heard that using it too much could throw your drive heads out of alignment, so he got rid of it.