18 May
2023
18 May
'23
9:44 p.m.
On 5/18/2023 2:08 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
cygwin has always been my friend on Wintel boxes. dd available there
and works just fine. WSL can also be used, but cygwin has served me
fine so far.
I guess, given the thread title, I should shamelessly plug that all of
you with latent Commodore 8 bit disk images can use ZoomFloppy via a
15X1/or PET drive and a USB connection to put those images onto disks.
Grab one now from the store!
Jim
As for loading in/loading out files from images,
there’s likely at
least something out there you can make use of. Even if there’s no
host OS native software for writing directly to images, there’s
almost certainly an emulator, which would work off disk images that
can later be written to real hardware disks.
This is why I avoid MS products.
They don't offer stuff like that, which on Unix is a perfectly normal operation
available via dd or other ways.