ZX Spectrum Beta Disc 3.5" floppy

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Name ZX Spectrum Beta Disc 3.5" floppy
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The ZX Spectrum Beta Disc 3.5" floppy is the 3 1/2" disk format used with ZX Spectrum computers, with the TR-DOS filesystem.

5¼" and 3½" floppies are used with the following formats (sources are unclear as to which of these formats are used with each of the sizes):

Number of tracks per side Number of sides Number of tracks (total) Number of sectors Number of bytes
80 2 160 2560 655360
40 2 80 1280 327680
80 1 80 1280 327680
40 1 40 640 163840

Diskettes can be dumped to TRD files for use in emulators.

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