25 Feb
2023
25 Feb
'23
11:17 p.m.
“ QRST under DOSBOX on Windows10 can't properly access a floppy even if
"mounted" with a -t floppy extension.”
It is a dosbox thing really?
Win 10 comes with cmd so do you need to use dosbox?
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 25, 2023, at 14:12, Chris Zach via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
So I'm working on restoring a Compaq DeskPro/XE system to allow me to use the 5.25
floppy to copy files from my 3.5 floppies which will come from my Windows 10 system so
that I can extract on the Deskpro/XE using teledisk the .td0 files that make up a RX50
floppy disk set so I can load POS 3.2 on my Pro/380 and see if the DECNA card works.
What a pain in the rear.
So far the XE boots but has no setup. Setup requires a special floppy (Diagnostic disk)
which mine was bad after 30 years so I'm trying to create a new one. I have the
official Compaq disk creation thing for a floppy but it's in QRST format and the QRST
under DOSBOX on Windows10 can't properly access a floppy even if "mounted"
with a -t floppy extension.
Before I drag out my rusty and trusty Windows 95 Toshiba 660AV laptop, is there another
way to get this onto a floppy? I have an endless supply of Rpi's, and doing a DD from
a .img file works fine but this of course is a QRST file.
Thoughts?
CZ