On 11/20/21 11:35 AM, fozztexx--- via cctalk wrote: > > samdisk can decode Victor 9000 images. It's hard for me to fully test because > neither of my Victors will boot from floppy and the hard disk I have seems to > have been wiped. But the original disks that I've read using scp do seem to > mostly decode. They don't boot in MAME though. To decode using samdisk: > > samdisk copy --scale 120 -c0-79 v9k-dos.scp v9k-dos.raw > > To convert the raw sector output from samdisk to a triangular image that is > MAME compatible requires two more steps: > > v9k-raw2img-fixed.pl v9k-dos.raw v9k-dos.img > dd if=v9k-dos.img bs=512 count=1224 of=v9k-dos.mame > > v9k-raw2img-fixed.pl can be found here: > https://forum.system-cfg.com/viewtopic.php?p=172637&sid=bc421b3642004100b88b43d22b50ac18#p172637 > > The point I'm at with trying to get my Victors working is to see if I can get > a good sector image that will boot in MAME, so I I know I have a good working > image and can get a better idea of what files are needed for booting. Then I > can either somehow dump the RAM out of MAME and poke it directly into the > Victor via serial boot (I was able to verify serial boot is possible) or > somehow poke it in using my Fluke 9010. From there I'll need to probably > write some diagnostics to try to figure out what is wrong with the floppy > drives. Then eventually I could create a new .scp using my floppur project > from a sector image that boots in MAME. >
After looking around, I figured that I might as well do the coding. So I did; customer is happy and I'm happy. --Chuck
