m7hacke |
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Reged: 04/02/18
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Loc: Buffalo Grove, IL
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Re: DEC Rainbow 100
04/02/18 05:56 PM
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> > Thank you. I don't have access to a PC with a floppy drive. I will look into your > > other suggestions. > > You don't have a PC with a floppy drive but you can emulate a PC in MAME with a > floppy drive. > > The point is theoretically you could load the files to an emulated IBM PC machine and > then copy them to a formatted RX50 floppy image using the DOS driver. > > My experience doing that kind of things vary though. I can't simply create a floppy > disk image with IsoBuster then expect it to be read by MAME right away, I ended up > with read/write errors. I would have to create a blank disk into MAME, format it with > DOS into MAME and then use the resulting blank disk image to inject external files > using IsoBuster. > > I would try creating a formatted blank disk on Rainbow 100 and then use that blank > disk image to copy external files on an emulated IBM PC environment. You could also > start by trying to read a softlist .TD0 disk on an ibm5170 machine with the DOS RX50 > driver.
So just to be clear what you are saying. You want me to create a virtual formatted blank disk using MAME (Rainbow 100)? The way I would do this is to boot the emulated Rainbow 100 by using either MS-DOS or CP/M (depending on what kind of formatted disk I want). Then I would assume I would use the command FORMAT B:. I'm not sure if that will work because there would not be anything mounted to drive B:. I will try this first step after work today.
Whether I make any progress or not, I really appreciate your help.
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