[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?
Mathieu Chouinard
chouimat at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 13:21:08 EST 2015
if you have access to a linux machine take a look at fdutils
Mathieu
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> If you have a PC with a 5.25 drive, you could try this command line utility
> -- I can't actually vouch for it, other than a) I've been to the URL below
> and it doesn't seem like a bad place, and b) I did run the utility on an old
> box and format some floppies in strange ways. I can't really remember how
> successful the whole venture was, but it might be worth a look for you... it
> has some imaging capability I believe:
>
> http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/fdio/
>
> -RobertH
>
> On 2/26/2015 11:55 AM, Rick Thornquist wrote:
>>
>>
>> 3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
>> programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
>> worked. I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though. I tried it and,
>> unfortunately, it didn't work. It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,
>> though some of the programs do say they can work with those kind of
>> drives. I've just dug out an old 360KB drive and will try that instead -
>> we'll see if that works.
>>
>>
>
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