26 Feb
2023
26 Feb
'23
7:40 p.m.
Thank you! I'd appreciate it if it comes to that, but I'll give myself a
week to find a solution here. All I need is a .img file or something I
can burn to floppy with dd.
And I have to replace that battery on the motherboard. Looks to be
welded in, we'll see....
CZ
On 2/25/2023 7:23 PM, Wayne S wrote:
Yep. I can probably burn a floppy for you if you put
the programs and data software somewhere i can get to it. I’ll try and then you can tell
me where to send the floppies.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 25, 2023, at 16:17, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
>
>>
>> I read that Qrst was just a file format. To quote The QRST disc image format was
used by Compaq to distribute disk images of diagnostic software. The file QRST.EXE or
QRST5.EXE would be supplied with the disc images to write them to a floppy drive.
>> -So do you have the QRST programs available?
>
> Yes. However the QRST program is a 16 bit app that requires physical access to a real
floppy controller. Thus it cannot work on a Windows 10 system with DOSBOX as the floppy is
USB and I don't think DOSBOX emulates a true floppy interface at the BIOS level.
>
> Modern archive tools like 7zip do not appear to have support for QRST format.
It's compressed in some odd way, so it can't just be dd'ed to a floppy sector
by sector.
>
> Never dull.
> CZ