16 May
2023
16 May
'23
8:16 p.m.
I’ll chip in my 5 cents and say that i’ve had good experiences with PUTR, a DOS based
utility can can read, write, and mount a lot of DEC formats. I quite successfully used it
to make myself a few bootable RX50 floppies for my 11/23.
Of course, YMMV, and you’ll need a DOS/9x machine to use it, but from my experiences, it’s
really quite powerful, and though i haven’t used it for disk imaging, i’m pretty sure it
supports that too.
Josh.
On May 14, 2023, at 5:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/14/23 06:58, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, May 14, 2023, 7:47 AM Chris Zach via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
ImageDisk may not be the answer either.
A problem that crops up if you're trying to run TeleDisk under a Windows
command prompt. That messes with the timing. TD is intended for use
under real-mode DOS. That is, if you're in windows, shut down to a DOS
command prompt. Do NOT assume that the Windows command prompt out of
the GUI will do the job. Or just boot MS-DOS.
There are certainly Linux programs that can also read RX50 floppies.
If you want a brute-force read every sector on an RX50 program, I can
pass that on to see if it works better for you. It knows the format of
an RX50 disk, so doesn't have to guess. I use it myself (the author of
TeleDisk), though increasingly, I'm relying on MCU-based solutions to
handle floppies.
I haven't touched TD since 1999, when we sold the rights to the program.
It blows my mind that it's in use 24 years after its last incarnation.
--Chuck
Hi!
Well, after a good bit of work I have finally gotten my Compaq XE4000 up
and running with Windows 98, the BIOS all set, a new battery, and of
course a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy that seems to be working.
I'd avoid teledisk. I'd look at Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk. It produces
those img files directly. It's linked from
http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/index.htm