On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Mark J. Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jun 2, 2016, at 08:46, Mike Stein <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > Originally you would use a program called LAPDOS to format, copy files > to/from a PC etc., but AFAIK it does not play well with modern versions of > Windows or Linux/Mac OS's.: > > Do any of the LAPDOS-like programs know how to perform sector-level copies > of TPDD disks? If so, one of them might give us a way to image the utility > diskettes. > > > No. But I'll remind folks there are two different sector access protocols for the 1 and 2. The sector access protocol for 1 is documented for 2 is not. But the best clue to 2 is the sector access done by BACKUP.
Personally I think most of this only interesting for preservation reasons. For random access in the modern disk utilities Ken and I just added a SEEK command. The old disk utilities are not very good. If someone were to spend time on something I'd recommend someone write an injector program for tsdos RAM version if one doesn't already exist. Big ram hit in using he ram version though. Opt rom or Rex is the best way to run tsdos -- John.
