24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
3:18 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk>wrote:
Alternatively you could install MSDOS in some
virtualisation thing (on
either Windows or Linux) and if that lets you access the floppy drive at
all it will let you access the raw device using 22DISK. If you want to
do it entirely for free, then Virtualbox and FreeDOS is the way to go.
You'd be lucky to find a virtualisation setup that supports the required
level of I/O and DMA access to drive the FDC natively. It's much better to
stick to native tools on your OS of choice.
He's already got Windows 7 and my Windows utility and driver are free. They
can handle PC-compatible disks at least as well as Teledisk, so dumping a
PCW image shouldn't be a problem.