This discussion raises a couple of questions in my mind.
a, Do the emmulators use the same interleave factor as on the QL, the
default, I think, was three, but could be altered in the definition block.
b, Whereas the PC (I did come by one of the originals) used none, writing
was as far as poss
I found on my disks extension called "atDOS_cde" (hope it's correct),
which adds superbasic keywords to read write Atari ST, MS DOS disks.
There are commands like ICOPY, ADIR... etc. Handy!
Jan
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
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>> Some chipsets now only support the HD disks.
>It seems I had this chipset on all machines up to now (8-(#
The point was that 'some chipsets/BIOSs' don't have DD support not that
only one had.
>
>I have very recently got a
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Dave Walker wrote:
>>> That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD
>>> drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
>
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> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:59 +, Dave Walker wrote:
>> There is also some software (cannot remem
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> Strange - all my PC's running XP have no problem using DD disks.
>
Running is not the proble
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Dave Walker wrote:
>> That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD
>> drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
>>
>> Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD on
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Dave Walker wrote:
>> That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD
>> drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
>>
>> Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one
> > That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks?
> HD
> > drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
> >
> > Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one just
> in
> > case?
> He is dead right. Qemulator warns about this and none of my machin
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Dave Walker wrote:
> Strange - all my PC's running XP have no problem using DD disks.
>
I ought to have said I can sometimes *read* from them if formatted on
the QL, but cannot write or format on the PC(s).
Tony
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Strange - all my PC's running XP have no problem using DD disks.
Dave
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Dave Walker wrote:
> That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks? HD
> drives should be backwards compatible with DD disks.
>
> Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one just in
> case?
He is dead rig
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On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:59 +, Dave Walker wrote:
> There is also some software (cannot remember the name off-hand) that can
be
> run on a PC to handle QDOS format floppy
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:59 +, Dave Walker wrote:
> There is also some software (cannot remember the name off-hand) that can be
> run on a PC to handle QDOS format floppy disks.
That's qltool: http://www.zen35309.zen.co.uk/misc/qxltool.zip
The only catch for some QL users might be if the QL on
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