"Modern" way of creating physical 3" disks?

[Gryzor]

Oh that brings back memories... funny how the era of me connecting my FD-1 to my then-new PC now seems retro to me

[gotcha]

If you need to convert any dsk file back with a Kryoflux (or a SCP), you can try and use "SugarConvDsk".

SugarConvDsk works indeed pretty well, thanks @Lone  !

Recently, I wanted to recreate few original disks that were not working anymore. Unfortunately, the Kryoflux can write a physical disk only from 'KF stream' files or IPF files. I didn't find any public IPF files for the CPC (it seems that the Software Preservation Society doesn't make them public) and, of course, you can get valid 'KF stream' files only if you have a working original disk ... 

I then had only DSK or CT-RAW images available from the web. I used SugarConvDsk to convert them to IPF and then write a floppy with the Kryoflux.
It worked pretty well, from both DSK and CT-RAW. 

Notes:

   
• I'm using a FD1 with the Kryoflux for dumping and writing floppies
• to write a floppy disk with the Kryoflux, you need to make sure that the floppy disk has no track with any issue (using for instance MarkError to check if the floppy is 'perfect')
• For french speakers, there is a discussion here : https://cpcrulez.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6152

[gotcha]

Oh that brings back memories... funny how the era of me connecting my FD-1 to my then-new PC now seems retro to me

My next experience will actually be to connect my not so new PC to the FD-1  I never did it. It's a core2duo that is old enough to still have a floppy connector, and modern enough to support a recent OS.
The problem is that with new operating systems, we don't necessary get a floppy support out of the box, and it took me some time for instance to be able to dump a 3.5" floppy disk from Linux. 

[Gryzor]

Ι must have been running Windows 2000 at the time... but, I remember that it was actually quite painless and easier than I thought it would be. Didn't have much use for it, since I didn't have any personal disks I wanted to dump or anything, but just went ahead for the fun of it.


What would be super cool would be connecting the FD-1 to my i7 laptop

[gotcha]

What would be super cool would be connecting the FD-1 to my i7 laptop

Well, you can do it (at least for dumping and writing disks - no direct access), but you need the Kryoflux between the laptop and the FD1.

[Gryzor]

Let me rephrase that:


What would be super cool would be connecting the FD-1 to my i7 laptop without having to spend €130 an preferably without any more hardware on my lap