On 22 October 2011 20:54, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On 22/10/11 17:44, Liam Proven wrote:
How might I read a PCW floppy into a PC disk
image? It's a 3.5" 720 DD
disk. My PC does have a 3=BD" drive and runs Windows 7/64 and Ubuntu
11.10/64.
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression the PCW9512 used a=20
3-inch drive... EME-231 or something like that.
You probably won't be able to do this under Win7; it doesn't allow=20
low-level access to the disc controller. Similar story for Linux, unless=20
you feel like writing a driver (or patching the existing driver) to do so.
Isn;t that what the FDRAWCMD ioctl() is for under linux?
IS the PC floppy drive conencted to a controller on the processor bus
(e.g. it's got a 34 way ribbon cabvle goign to a connector on the
motherboard), or is it a USB deviec? I am told most (all?) of the latter
don't handle non-PC formats (or even non-1.44M formats) at all.
My one is on a plain old floppy interface. Yes, I've read of the
problems with USB drives, too. I am hoping to try to install OS/2 on
an old Thinkpad laptop of mine at some point soon, and as it's a
floppyless machine and OS/2 CDs are not bootable (AFAICT), I'm going
to have to try to use a USB CD for that. I am not very confident it
will work.
Joyce itself read my LocoScript 4.11 disk fine. It ground worryingly
on the latter half of the tracks - from 39 up to 80, roughly - which
worried me, but then I discovered that the disk is only half full
anyway. The whole program seems to take up about 384K including a
whole load of templates and things.
So now I have it running, which was fun. I also couldn't find the
keyboard map online until I'd managed to extract my own from the
online help in the emulator - but you can't see that when it's
running, AFAICT.
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