You could goto the original source, Cliff Lawson (one of the original
Amstrad team) mantains an archive of most Amstrad software.
The ppc disks are
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/files/ppcdisks.zip
Bye,
Deano
Dean Calver,
Eclipse Studio Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne M. Smith" <wmsmith(a)earthlink.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: Amstrad PPC640 part 2 (bootdisk)
Jim Strickland wrote:
Remember that the Amstrad ppc640 is a PC XT clone
with double density
(not high density) floppy drives. It should boot any old version of
DOS after about 3.3, so long as it's on the proper floppy. These
things can be tricky to find these days though. If you can still
download DR.DOS 7, I know that works, since I've used it on mine.
Otherwise I'd be tempted to try FreeDOS. I'm in the same position,
though, I don't have any way of making low density 3.5 inch boot disks
for PCs anymore (unless I get busy and put my old PC back together).
I've used
a PPC640 before - the drive will read 3.5" HD disks if you
cover
the density select hole on the disk, reformat it to 720k and then SYS C:
A:
it. MSDOS 5 works great on PPCs. DR-DOS 7 works on anything :-)
I believe this is the IBM ftp site:
ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/
From there you can get:
3_3boot.exe 126208 08-24-95 DOS 3.3 Boot disk with maint. Files
or
5-25boot.exe 151819 08-24-95 DOS 3.3 BOOT DISK W/ MAINT. FILES
-W