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Disk: Smaky 6
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The Smaky 6 is a Swiss computer from 1978 produced by Epsitec. It's based
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around a Z80 processor and has one or two Micropolis 5.25" drives which use
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16-sector hard sectored disks. The disk format is single-sided with 77 tracks
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and 256-byte sectors, resulting in 308kB disks. It uses MFM with a custom
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sector record scheme. It was later superceded by a 68000-based Smaky which used
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different disks.
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FluxEngine supports these, although because the Micropolis drives use a 100tpi
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track pitch, you can't read Smaky 6 disks with a normal PC 96tpi drive. You
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will have to find a 100tpi drive from somewhere (they're rare).
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Reading disks
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You must use a 100-tpi 80-track 5.25" floppy drive.
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To read a Smaky 6 floppy, do:
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```
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fluxengine read smaky6
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```
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You should end up with a `smaky6.img` file.
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Filesystem access
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-----------------
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There is experimental read-only support for the Smaky 6 filesystem, allowing
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the directory to be listed and files read from disks. It's not known whether
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this is completely correct, so don't trust it! See the [Filesystem
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Access](filesystem.md) page for more information.
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Useful references
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- [Smaky Info, 1978-2002 (in French)](https://www.smaky.ch/theme.php?id=sminfo)
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