30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
5:20 a.m.
On 30 July 2012 08:50, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
On 30/07/2012 08:40, rachael at telefisk.org wrote:
With a bit of creative use of DRIVER.SYS you could tell a PC that a
3?" drive was a 5?" one and block-copy a 360K floppy onto 720K media.
It works, I've done it. I made a 3?" DR DOS+ boot floppy that was &
was able to run it on later machines lacking 5?" media.
But the 'Strad PPC is quite vanilla - it's a desktop 8086 motherboard
in a kinda-sorta portable case. It bombed in the market & the last
ones were sold off cheaply for less than the retail price of their
onboard 2400baud modem. There was even a utility sold to hook a PPC
to your ordinary computer & use it as an external modem.
Ugly things - look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512
I never realised 'til reading that that they were the basis of the
ill-fated Last Ever Sinclair machine, the PC200.
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Dan Williams wrote:
The 1640 had 360k 5.25" drives, the PPC has 3.5" 720K so probably not
much
use.... Hi,
They used to be available on the website of Cliff Lawson who was
Amstrad computing. But his site seems to be down.
I checked some links I saved and found this, I don't know what format
they are in.
http://www.retroisle.com/amstrad/pcs/software.php
Dan
is a copy of the site here, but cant see any ppc640 files,
there are some 1640 disks though, might be related.
http://z80cpu.eu/otherfiles/web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/files.htm
some info on howto write those images back to a floppy
http://z80cpu.eu/otherfiles/web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/xtpcs.htm#disks
regards
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