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By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:49:24 +0000

In reply to buricco.

I did not have a PC back then or access to one. But right the “pc booters”. I forgot about having read about them.

I recall tools to extract the data files, I think they used their own “OS” like running bare metal I did with that interpreter on a Cisco router.

I’ll have to dig for one of those images.

By: buricco

buricco — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:15:07 +0000

IIRC, early American releases of Z3 Infocom games came with PC DOS 2.00 on the disc?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:20:00 +0000

In reply to Roy.

I must be dumb but ‘A:’ and ‘\\.\A:’ just give me ‘No Disk!’

I apparently have version 2.77 & 2.78

By: DOS

DOS — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:37:41 +0000

In reply to Darkstar.

From a web search, that certainly seems to be what “3-mode” means. I gather from what I’d read online previously that in fact some USB floppy drives are only 1 mode – 1.44MB, not even 720KB support.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:37:39 +0000

since you’re using anex86, you can just use it to read disk with your 3-mode FDD and create FDI image.

By: Darkstar

Darkstar — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:15:26 +0000

If you want the disk dumped properly with a KryoFlux, hit me up, I can do that for you.
The PC-98 floppies were a bit special, as you noticed, so most simple USB floppy drives can’t read the disk at all because they only know about 720k and 1.4m floppies. I guess the “3-mode” means that they also support 1.2m floppies. But any form of copy-protection will throw these simple µC-based floppy controllers off the track…