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DSK to Floppy via M4 board

Started by francouai, 05:47, 09 April 18

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francouai

Hi!
I'm wondering how to re-create real 3" floppies from DSK files stored on my M4 board?
Is there a special CPC software to do this ?

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francois

Duke

If you have more than 128KB ram, you can use the SymbOS dsk-writer utility.

Otherwise there is also this, for standard formats:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/amstrad-cpc-wifi/msg141353/#msg141353

Quote from: francouai on 05:47, 09 April 18
I'm wondering how to re-create real 3" floppies from DSK files stored on my M4 board?
Is there a special CPC software to do this ?

francouai

I'm memory stock  ;D so only 128ko

your link with the software looks nice, but I have no idea how to compile the assembler code  :-[
If someone can put it already built on a share drive for me?
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francois

Scautura

#3
Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rlepig79ufbco1n/dsktransfer.dsk?dl=0


This is a disk image with the source, compiled binary, and BASIC program. Instructions are simple, run the BASIC program in the same folder as the binary, to load everything you need into memory. Then |cd (I typed "{cd", I'm so used to the CPC keyboard now!) into the DSK file you want to transfer to disk, then "run" - make sure you have the disk in the drive that you want to write to, there are no prompts or warnings, so it will be written over!

You can extract the contents of the disk image I've provided, it's three 1kb files so the DSK is a little overkill, but it's just how I have it to easy access (even as a DSK image, it's 191kb, so it's not like it's massive)

Edited for clarity: Note that this is not my code, it is @HAL 6128 's code from the message mentioned in @Duke 's post. I am planning on making something a little more "user friendly" at some point, but there is no guarantee I will complete that work)

francouai

 :o  Scautura = TO THE TOP
Cheers M8 !  ;D
I'll play on it in the next couple of days.
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francois

francouai

just tried with THE DEMO and works like a charm.  :P
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francois

f-bone

i would like to do this too.. can you please clarify what THE DEMO is?

genesis8

Quote from: f-bone on 16:11, 02 May 19
i would like to do this too.. can you please clarify what THE DEMO is?


It's a demo by Logon System in 1991 : http://www.genesis8bit.fr/frontend/demos/thedemo.zip
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CraigsBar

Have I missed something, but the m4 front end rom does this perfectly.

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francouai

At this time, "m4 front" wasn't available.
I'm using it now.
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francois

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