Oh I'm in NJ usa, probably not worth the mail.
I am game for what Greg said, trying to write a greaseweazel image
(which you can just email) to a real disk and then see if I can read
that disk in a real drive.
I've used fluxengine but never used a greaseweasel so I just assume that
it can write an image back to a disk. I think fluxengine can not, at
least for this kind of disk. I have been wanting to get one of these
recent version greaseweasels for a while anyway.
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bkw
On 3/20/25 19:21, James Reed wrote:
Hi
Thanks Brian
I did try imaging my disk with fluxengine ages ago and it did seem to
work, I could see bits of filenames etc in it but I don't really have
the smarts to decode it all myself.
Thanks for the offer to read the disk - I wouldn't mind sending it
because I can probably image / copy it with the Greaseweazle. Where are
you based? I'm in the UK
Thanks
James
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 13:32, Brian K. White <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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 <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 <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 <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
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