On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
I know people seemed kind of turned off by the idea of GOTEK floppy disk
emulators, but you do realize if you actually have the machine you are
wanting to make disks for the GOTEK is a great way to do it. Put a
GOTEK and a real drive on the machine
On 1/24/23 17:28, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
I know people seemed kind of turned off by the idea of GOTEK floppy disk
emulators,
but you do realize if you actually have the machine you are wanting to
make disks for
the GOTEK is a great way to do it. Put a GOTEK and a real drive on
I know people seemed kind of turned off by the idea of GOTEK floppy disk
emulators,
but you do realize if you actually have the machine you are wanting to
make disks for
the GOTEK is a great way to do it. Put a GOTEK and a real drive on the
machine and just
use backup. Then, for the
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
[1] I think I have a USB floppy drive somewhere, but it'll be a
'1.44Mbyte' [2] 3.5" thing. A type of drive conspiculously absent on
my classic machines.
The first NEC external 3.5" USB drive (UF0001) cabled USB into a normal
765 inside the
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:46 AM Jim Brain via cctalk
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> Looks like a few tools will do so:
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> https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-way-to-convert-imd-to-img.1237774/post-1246165
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> You just need to get the IMD to be an IMG file, and then GW will create
> the flux and timing
On 1/24/2023 12:23 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 6:16 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
On 1/24/2023 12:12 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
I've skimmed the thread about making images of floppy disks. I want to
do the reverse.
Greaseweazle will do this. Use the same HW setup as
Maybe go another way and use one of those usb disk adapters to copy the hard
disks that can be placed as second disks on the classics and floppies burned
from there? Or maybe try to get a serial/parallel zip drive that works on the
classics ?
If the classics support IDE, it should be easy.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 6:16 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
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> On 1/24/2023 12:12 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> > I've skimmed the thread about making images of floppy disks. I want to
> > do the reverse.
> Greaseweazle will do this. Use the same HW setup as for imaging, but
> instruct the
On 1/24/2023 12:12 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
I've skimmed the thread about making images of floppy disks. I want to
do the reverse.
Greaseweazle will do this. Use the same HW setup as for imaging, but
instruct the GW software to write an image to physical disk.
Jim
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