On 8/4/20 11:06 PM, RETRO Innovations wrote:
I am trying to archive my tpdd 1 disks (I have 3) to Windows using
tpddtool.py, but I am interested in what are the default files that come
on the disks?
I have one utility disk that is almost bare (PLOT.BA and SETRAM.BA, but
another has a lot more files.
Also, tpddtool.py does not want to save off the Floppy_SYS file, but I
assume it's needed. Ideas?
Jim
The utility disk is special. You can't copy it by copying the files, you
need to do a full disk image, and there is no way to do that*, except by
bootstrapping from it, and running the backup.ba program that's on it,
which creates a new full physical copy of the disk, including the
special parts like floppy.sys.
Any other disk is just a disk and the files are just files like any
other disk and files, just whatever random stuff you put on it. plot.ba
is just a random basic app, not part of any util disk.
* It's physically possible, simply no one has written up a util to do
it. Kurt McCullum has a windows exe on club100 member uploads that
purports to create a new TPDD2 util disk. You didn't specify TPDD1 or
TPDD2 but they are different and have different util disks.
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bkw
