22 Jun
2012
22 Jun
'12
4:20 p.m.
I am doing my once a decade or so clean up and sorting. I have found working
distribution diskettes of the shareware software PC-Write and PC-File. I
had to break-out a 5.25 inch drive to read these. My 2005 vintage XP machine
only support on drive at a time so I have to open the case and hook up the
5.25 inch drive.
I have transferred these disks to my network drive and have tested them on a
Windows 98 laptop. I also have Norton Utilities and various copies of DOS
going back to version 1.1. (Complete with packaging.) If there are any
vintage PC users here I can email copies of the disk contents. Is there a
program that makes an "ISO" type file of a bootable floppy?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PC_Write_text_editor.png
Michael Holley
22 Jun
22 Jun
5:21 p.m.
Not an ISO. Usually other formats are used, such as .IMD (See
Imagedisk, below).
There are a few programs out there for making images of disks. Your
2005 machine might even support them, depending upon what it has for a
disk controller.
Examples:
Imagedisk: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
Anadisk: http://www.8bit-micro.com/anadisk-man.htm
Teledisk: (Hard to find these days, apparently some kind of i.p. rights
issue)
cwtool and cw2dmk (requires catweasel hardware, which is not easy to
find. See cw2dmk at http://www.tim-mann.org/catweasel.html and cwtool
at http://unusedino.de/cw/cwtool.html)
dmklib: http://dmklib.brouhaha.com/
There are also virtual floppy drives you can purchase that support
storing disk images on flash memory, that you might want to look at.
One example I have been considering:
http://www.8bit-micro.com/anadisk-man.htm
On 6/22/2012 3:20 PM, Michael Holley wrote:
I am doing my once a decade or so clean up and
sorting. I have found working
distribution diskettes of the shareware software PC-Write and PC-File. I
had to break-out a 5.25 inch drive to read these. My 2005 vintage XP machine
only support on drive at a time so I have to open the case and hook up the
5.25 inch drive.
I have transferred these disks to my network drive and have tested them on a
Windows 98 laptop. I also have Norton Utilities and various copies of DOS
going back to version 1.1. (Complete with packaging.) If there are any
vintage PC users here I can email copies of the disk contents. Is there a
program that makes an "ISO" type file of a bootable floppy?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PC_Write_text_editor.png
Michael Holley
9:31 p.m.
Sure - grab yourself something like winimage (www.winimage.com) or some
version of rawread to create the images. I like WinImage in that it doesn't
make mistakes about the floppy size as I've seen with some other apps. I
happen to be a collector of original disk images myself, so I'd be happy to
take (and make available) any classic disk images you want to make.
James
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Subject: PC-Write and PC-File Shareware
I am doing my once a decade or so clean up and sorting. I have found working
distribution diskettes of the shareware software PC-Write and PC-File. I
had to break-out a 5.25 inch drive to read these. My 2005 vintage XP machine
only support on drive at a time so I have to open the case and hook up the
5.25 inch drive.
I have transferred these disks to my network drive and have tested them on a
Windows 98 laptop. I also have Norton Utilities and various copies of DOS
going back to version 1.1. (Complete with packaging.) If there are any
vintage PC users here I can email copies of the disk contents. Is there a
program that makes an "ISO" type file of a bootable floppy?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PC_Write_text_editor.png
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