Andrew Collier wrote: > [>Gavin Smith wrote:] > >> Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks > >> from my floppyless iMac... > >> > >You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format > >floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on it. > >You can look to my web page for more information. > > Depends exactly what he's using them for... the raw .dsk files are all very > fine and well for use in SimCoupe, but I suspect Gavin is trying to use the > disk images in a real Sam, so they really need to go on a more solid medium.
I think the original poster (Johnna??) wanted the files as .dsk files, for convenience, I was merely agreeing with them, whilst adding that it doesn't really matter to me anyway, as I have an iMac which doesn't have a floppy drive... > Gavin - if it helps, I've got a (really quite quickly hacked together) Mac > program which will let you [retrieve files from | store files in] a .dsk > image... that may or may not be useful, depending on exactly what you're > trying to achieve! See above, but thanks anyway, I'll keep it in mind if I ever get a floppy drive for the iMac (I was considering getting a SuperDisk - the one which can accept normal floppies as well as their own 120 Meg format. >>(As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. >>And since Win32 is the main op.system in the world, we should follow its >>rules.) > If everybody took that attitude, there's no reason to be on this mailing > list... Entirely agreed! *pats his Speccy, SAM, iMac, Electron and (dead) Linux box.* Gavin
