Yeah, you do need a monitor or something to get started on either Mike Douglas's solution or Dave Dunfield's NST. I've used both successfully.
If you have hard-sectored disks, I can just make you a boot disk. I have both single and double density controllers. Thanks, Jonathan On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:39 AM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I'm told that the N* controller can write H89 formated disk but the H89 > controller can't do N* format. I could have that backwards but that is what > I recall. One can't do the other. > > The H89 hard sectored controller is single density only, while the newer > N* can do both single and double density, still hard sectored though. There > is always confusion on the N* controllers as to which can do double > density. My research indicates that the MDC-nA are single density only and > the MDC-nDA can do both ( n is a rev. number 1, 2, 3, or 4). > > Dwight > > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Fred Cisin via > cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 11:08:18 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Looking for North star software > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, dwight via cctalk wrote: > > I'm not as worried about 10 hard secrtored disk. I still have the punch > > I had made for my H89. I can create 10 sector from old 360K disk. > > If you have a working H89 (hard sectored), then you should be able to > write a program to run on the H89 to write hard sectored disk images! > Can it do single density 256 byte sectors? or MFM 512 byte sectors? > > .ASM for PCTOFLOP should be available, as a guide to what you need, but > will need modification for the H89 disk controller. > > Most of the NorthStar disk images should be availablem once you've got the > H89 writing disks from them! > > Once you've got the NorthStar booting CP/M plus a copy of PIP, you can > then continue on it. > > >