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]> 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 > > 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. > > -- > bkw > >
