Tim P wrote: > Alas, neither SamDsk nor SamDisk seem to want to work on my > shiney new PC (running Windows XP). > > Is it just me?
It's not just you - none of the existing tools work with NT/W2K/XP, they're DOS/9x/Me only. > Is there another tool out there I'm missing that'll do the job? I've got a test driver which already works with the current Win32 SimCoupé, to allow access to regular format real floppies on NT4/W2K/XP. It's not supplied with the normal download as it's still experimental, but will probably do what you need (let me know if you want to try it). As well as directly manipulating files on disk, you can effectively image the real floppy by inserting a blank floppy image into drive 2 and doing a BACKUP "d1" to "d2" in MasterDOS. I'd also been working on a SAMDisk library, to give a common interface to SAM disks on all platforms. However, that's on hold for now as SAM disk support may be added to libdsk (http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/LibDsk/) instead, with the completed driver becoming part of that. That said, the current libdsk version doesn't seem to handle non-regular geometry disks too well, so protected SAM disks can't be handled just yet. Si
