- #EMULATOR MESS FORCE MAC TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY PC#
- #EMULATOR MESS FORCE MAC TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY WINDOWS#
I had 1st to format the disk on a real Oric, and the using Writedsk worked fine. I tried to transfer a 18 sectors per track disk, and this won't work with Writedsk only (the libraries used by Writedsk won't format more than 17 sectors per track). I've recently had so much trouble trying to make a real floppy from a disk image that I hope we soon have another solution for ou real Orics
#EMULATOR MESS FORCE MAC TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY PC#
I can't convert it on the real Oric with tapes not loading when the disk drive is attached, and I can't convert it back from the PC to an Oric disk. I did it previously so have a tape image on PC. Some of the HD disks work in HD drives but not so reliable in the old 720 one and 720 disks don't seem so reliable in the HD drive.Īt the moment I'm trying to convert Salamander's Oric Trek. In the past I've managed to use the disks with the Oric but at the moment I'm having troubles. I remember reading something the Atari ST users said that HD disks weren't suitable for 720 use as the layer was thinner and the HD drives write thinner tracks so using them as DD tended to 'bleed through' and cause corrupted files etc. I'm not using DOSBox, just the Command line. So is that a hardware issue or software? I could fit one of Jean B's 720 drives. That looks like it isn't recognizing 720k in Windows.
#EMULATOR MESS FORCE MAC TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY WINDOWS#
With the new drive if I look in Windows the options to format the A: just gives me 1.44mB option - no 720K. As far as I remember it's what I used to use for converting Oric files to and from PC) Should I be doing something else? Why isn't it working? I'm using DD 720K disk or a 1.44 with the HD hole tapes up which should make it 720K. When running Writedsk I think I used to use writedsk "floppy.dsk" a: but now I see Writedsk floppy.dsk a: What's that? I don't remember ever using that and I couldn't seem to get it to run without errors.
I remember using INIT11 to format floppies though I used to use the real Oric because it was quicker. So the first question is should the floppy be Oric formatted or DOS formatted? (And does it matter which version of Writedsk is to be used?) (?)ĭBug has some instructions online which suggest formatting the floppy in DOS. There seems to be two versions of Writedsk with one called Writedsk2 though the other one is v2. I've bought a new floippy drive just to check that wasn't the problem but no difference. I've been trying to convert a disk image to floppy recently and not having any success.