On 3/20/25 08:00, James Reed wrote:
Hi
Now I have the serial port working I'm wanting to move on to some new
challenges.
I had a Tandy 102 and TPDD (I think v1) many years ago, and I wrote a
few programs that I'd like to get access to. I still have the
floppy disk and now a Tandy 102 but I don't have the TPDD.
I have a Greaseweazle and can make an image of the disk, but what I
can't work out is how I can make use of this. All the utilities I've
looked at seem to need you to have the actual hardware to read or write
images, and I can't see any utilities which can extract the actual files.
I'd be grateful for any pointers or if anyone can suggest anything.
James
fluxengine has support for it, and can use the greaseweazel hardware.
I have not tested it.
https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/doc/disk-fb100.html
This will only get you raw sectors not files, but the disk format is
well documented in the software manual, and there are only 40 tracks on
the whole disk, so, you can piece the files back together manually.
http://tandy.wiki/TPDD#Documentation
https://archive.org/details/tandy-service-manual-26-3808-s-software-manual-for-portable-disk-drive/page/n5/mode/2up
It won't be exactly trivial, but I think there are no secrets making it
impossible.
If you want to risk snail-mailing it, I'll just read it in a real drive
if you want.
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bkw
