AS REPORTED BY THE LOVELY PATRICIA HERRINGTON, EDITOR OF MOAUG NEWSLETTER: 
The following is the raw version of a message by Syd Carter re his "extended ddps" downloaded from national ADAM ECHO: 
(edited version appeared in Aug MOAUG) 
 
Here's the scoop...Have you ever noticed how you're always ru nning out of storage space on your digital data pacs???  W ell, if you're one of the many Adam users who is in this situation then I have news!!!!!  Trisyd Video Games has PERFECTED a format generator that has now increased the si ze of a standard digital data pac from 256k to 306k, and tha t's just for starters..  As of writing this, the process is capable of generating format code to support up to 16 megs!! ...Yes there is more.. 
 
At this time, the Trisyd Labs (as I fondly like to call it) i s still tweaking every byte it can to provide the best possi ble format in the smallest package.  Theoretical predictions indicate a new standard to be set for C-60 cassettes being a storage capacity of 320k or twice the capacity of a standar d single sided disk drive.  Provisions are now in effect t o format C-90 and upwards type magnetic media in an effort to increase the DDP capacity into the 400+k range!!!  AND THE BEST PART is that all this comes without having to modify your EOS operating system!! 
 
What this means it that you can just drop one of these beauties into your data drive and store all the smartwriter letters or basic programs that it will hold.  For CP/M applications, the need to utilize a modified O/S such as TDOS will be required.  I've already spoken with Tony Morehen (Whom you all should be aware of as being the driving force behind all the wonderful improvements to CP/M) and he tells me that the implementation of this type of tape size is a very simple procedure, in fact, I would say he has already made the provision for such an event seeing as he has already made modifications to CP/M for the 320k, 720k disk drives and the hard disk!!. The tapes are now in the league!! 
 
Do not confuse this as a patch job from existing tapes..  These (Trisyd tapes?) are generated from scratch, 100% masters... This project has taken 1 year in research and development. It has met with failures yet still succeeded. The tapes created act just like they came out of the Coleco mother themselves, perhaps even BETTER!! These tapes are fully formatted.  The missing blocks at the end of a tape (caused by improper spool length) are eliminated!! Within seconds the tape drive microprocessor is able to determine where it is on the tape and proceed to where it wants to be. 
 
Well enough for this message... More updates to come as they happen.. I will announce price and availability soon!!! Keep posted!!


 
 

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