If what you have is a TPDD-2 and not a TPDD, I can supply a copy for TPDD-2. Send me an address off-list and I'll mail it tomorrow.
Conversely I would like a copy for TPDD myself if anyone is willing to either make me one, or trust me with mailing me theirs and I'll mail it back after making a copy myself. >From what I've been able to tell, although people have tried and failed for 30 years, it actually *should* be physically possible to generate a new disk purely from a download, as long as you have a real drive and a working special cable. After all, the included floppy dos + backup.ba does it, and the drive is controlled entirely by mere serial communication which anything can do. A little progress has been made recently wrt recording the entire serial conversation during a backup, but it still has not yet gone all the way to being able to generate a disk from scratch from a download. I think the tools are there to at least work on it and eventually get there. So if you want an interesting project that hasn't already been solve at least 7 different times over the decades, yet looks within reach, there it is. :) You absolutely need a working TPDD or TPDD-2 drive to make these though, even if you use a modern pc to control it. It's not just a matter of an odd number of tracks or sectors or other formatting. The raw magnetic format is FM instead of MFM which all pc drives & drive controllers use. No amount of special software can overcome that! On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> wrote: > A little deeper googling is leading me to believe there is a special > floppy_sys file on the utility disk that nobody has figured out how to > recreate. I'll try it anyway when it arrives but If that ends up being the > case, then I wonder if there is anyone on the list who would be willing to > make my a utility disk. I'd be happy to send a blank disk and a > self-addressed stamped envelope. > > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Tom Dison <fretina...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ah that's a good question, is like to know also. >> >> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:29 PM Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I don’t mean with a PC. I should already be able to use the drive via >>> TS-DOS so I’m assuming I can just copy floppy.co to my M102 using >>> desklink and then save it to the TPDD. I’m just wondering if that is good >>> enough or if there is some special boot sector magic necessary. >>> >>> On May 29, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Tom Dison <fretina...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I don't believe you can create one with a PC floppy controller. I'd buy >>> a copy off of someone is I could. For now, I'm planning on using the python >>> library on Linux box connected to the drive to create the disk. I'd much >>> rather just have the floppy. >>> >>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:31 PM Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I've been watching eBay on and off for a TPDD or TPDD2 complete with >>>> cable at a reasonable price for what feels like forever. I finally pulled >>>> the trigger on one today but doesn't include the utility diskette. >>>> >>>> I already have a REX with TS-DOS and I know how to bootstrap TEENY if >>>> necessary, but I'd like to have a utility disk with floppy.co just for >>>> the fun of it. I believe I found floppy.co in an archive on the >>>> Club100 site. Is there anything special about the utility disk or can I >>>> just save floppy.co to any formatted disk and then be able to use it >>>> to bootstrap floppy.co later? >>>> >>> -- >>> Faith without Works is Dead... >>> >>> -- >> Faith without Works is Dead... >> > > -- bkw
