Well, I've got a Kryoflux now, connected to the cheapest standard PC
floppy drive that I could find on eBay, and it's working really well.
The supplied software has a GUI (if you're willing to install Java,
anyway; pleasingly it is OS X v10.8 compatible) and one of the output
options is a raw MFM
No, but, read here:
http://www.softpres.org/news:2010-02-18
Looks like it supports SAM Coupé.
I only do not know if it saves in MGT format.
Am 23.07.2012 18:04, schrieb Thomas Harte:
Being back in the UK for maybe three weeks and having uncovered some
old floppies, and having no access to a PC
I've ordered one so I'll report on my findings when I have some.
Sadly I'll just be preserving some of my own early creative work — I
was about 11 at the time so it's nothing that would be of interest to
anybody else. I'm not going to have anything of interest that's legal
to distribute that
Being back in the UK for maybe three weeks and having uncovered some old
floppies, and having no access to a PC with a floppy drive controller, did
anyone try the Kyroflux route?
On Thursday, 28 July 2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote:
You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of
You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks
are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the edge of spec or
whether the disks have just degraded over time I'm unsure.
And congrats on the new arrival! Sell the Sam and invest in some
heavy-duty
@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive
On 22/07/11 15:38, Dicky Moore wrote:
Hey all
Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk
or .mgt images using a USB floppy drive?
Very little hope of doing that.
All the programs I've
Subject: RE: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive
Geoff, Howard, Leszek, Simon, Nev, Thomas, thanks so much for your help. You
are all so kind to reply so quickly and I'm totally humbled by your expertise.
I tracked down a friend who still has a desktop PC with a built in IDE
On 27 July 2011 11:52, Dicky Moore dickymo...@gmail.com wrote:
Geoff, Howard, Leszek, Simon, Nev, Thomas, thanks so much for your help.
You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks
are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the edge of spec or
whether
pc suite on sam formatted a dsdd disc to 720kb which could be read by
a pc but how you transfer scads or etracker to and from the disc once
the pc could read the file code - maybe sim coupe ram block has
something to do with it?
no one help me to persuade Colin Piggot to try running Edwin Leszek
Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote:
my USB floppy drive showed up as a block device and exposed only the
PC-style double density sectors as blocks.
That's just how USB floppy drives are seen by the system, and is the
reason they're so limited. The LBA to CHS mapping is internal to
Yes and no. Mostly no.
http://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=28
is your best hope, I expect. Most standard USB floppy drives will only read
standard disk formats, which means you won't be able to access the 10th
sector on a Sam disk.
No idea if the software works
Hi Dicky
I remember this question from a few months back, especially because I've run
out of space in my half height PC case too.
The USB floppy drives simply aren't sophisticated enough to read non-standard
disks, and never will be able to either. In order to run SamDisk you need to
I had only success using a slim line Parallel port floppy with my olt
Travelmate TM 312T Subnotebook.
2011/7/22 toberm...@waitrose.com
Hi Dicky
I remember this question from a few months back, especially because I've
run out of space in my half height PC case too.
The USB floppy drives
Dicky Moore wrote:
Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk or
.mgt images using a USB floppy drive?
Samdisk doesn’t support USB floppy drives and I’m not sure of any other
software that can do this.
I'm afraid there's no way to do it with a standard USB floppy
On 22/07/11 15:38, Dicky Moore wrote:
Hey all
Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk or
.mgt images using a USB floppy drive?
Very little hope of doing that.
All the programs I've seen, or written myself, need to access the floppy
disk controller which you
On OS X, which of course has a BSD-derived layer, I wasn't able to get
anything using dd — my USB floppy drive showed up as a block device
and exposed only the PC-style double density sectors as blocks. I was
able successfully to image any disk that didn't use any of its
tenth-per-track sectors,
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