7 Dec
2013
7 Dec
'13
12:26 p.m.
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Namens Glen Slick
Verzonden: zaterdag 7 december 2013 19:21
Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Onderwerp: Re: HP-150 Software
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Robert Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at
ntlworld.com>
wrote:
I also encountered that issue using TD02IMD last year with some of the
HP-85 series software images, for example this one:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/software/WORDSR80.TD0
I think the issue is that the Teledisk images were built including some
additional
Have you tried using Dave's TD02IMD program to directly convert the
Teledisk .TD0 to .IMD files?
Sorry I forgot to mention that I tried that and it failed with an
error about different sector sizes on the same track.
sectors that are essentially garbage and could be
ignored.
My solution at the time after spending some time looking at this was to
rebuild
TD02IMD from the source code available on Dave's
site to ignore these
extra
garbage sectors that were cause the fatal errors.
I'd have to look back at my notes on this to remember exactly what I did
here.
It would be a useful project to go through the Teledisk images on the HP
Museum site and convert them all to ImageDisk format.
-Glen
http://hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdrive/
Contains the HPDrive utility and a utility to convert teledisk files to HPI
(binary image)
New software on the HP Museum site is stored in the HPDrive format.
HPDrive also supports simh tape files.
All you need to use it as an HP-IB card in your computer.
Here you can download Teledisk:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?content=How%20To%20Download
-Rik