Edwin Blink sent me some dlls which were supposed to help sim coupe readrite to a real compact flash connected to a pc but i never managed to get them working mind you i have noticed that the library computers are monitored from start to finish and wont let you do something but usually only when you have spent all day trying to do it
On 17 October 2011 11:02, Simon Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Oct 2011, at 15:03, ellvis wrote: >> Results were that I got only half of the directory visible and after >> any file load I've got 108 End of file and the data were just mess. > > MGT (old-style DSK) uses a track order of: > c0h0, c0h1, c1h0, c1h1, c2h0, ... > > BDOS records and SAD images use: > c0h0, c1h0, c2h0, c3h0, c4h0, ... > > So you'll need to re-order the tracks before you can treat them as raw > images. Without that you'll see the 1st and 3rd tracks in the directory > listing, but the rest of the image will be mostly garbled. > > You could add this fixed 22-byte header to the extracted data to make them > valid SAD images: > 41 6C 65 79 27 73 20 64 69 73 6B 20 62 61 63 6B 75 70 02 50 0A 08 > > Or mount the BDOS image in SimCoupe and copy the record out to a floppy disk > image. There will be Linux and Mac builds of SAMdisk at some point too, as > the real HDD device code is mostly done. > > Si > >
