fluxengine/doc/disk-smaky6.md

Disk: Smaky 6

The Smaky 6 is a Swiss computer from 1978 produced by Epsitec. It's based around a Z80 processor and has one or two Micropolis 5.25" drives which use 16-sector hard sectored disks. The disk format is single-sided with 77 tracks and 256-byte sectors, resulting in 308kB disks. It uses MFM with a custom sector record scheme. It was later superceded by a 68000-based Smaky which used different disks.

FluxEngine supports these, although because the Micropolis drives use a 100tpi track pitch, you can't read Smaky 6 disks with a normal PC 96tpi drive. You will have to find a 100tpi drive from somewhere (they're rare).

Reading disks

You must use a 100-tpi 80-track 5.25" floppy drive.

To read a Smaky 6 floppy, do:

fluxengine read smaky6

You should end up with a smaky6.img file.

Useful references

• Smaky Info, 1978-2002 (in French)