On 5/14/23 06:58, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2023, 7:47 AM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Well, after a good bit of work I have finally gotten my Compaq XE4000 up >> and running with Windows 98, the BIOS all set, a new battery, and of >> course a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy that seems to be working. >> > > I'd avoid teledisk. I'd look at Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk. It produces > those img files directly. It's linked from > http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/index.htm
ImageDisk may not be the answer either. A problem that crops up if you're trying to run TeleDisk under a Windows command prompt. That messes with the timing. TD is intended for use under real-mode DOS. That is, if you're in windows, shut down to a DOS command prompt. Do NOT assume that the Windows command prompt out of the GUI will do the job. Or just boot MS-DOS. There are certainly Linux programs that can also read RX50 floppies. If you want a brute-force read every sector on an RX50 program, I can pass that on to see if it works better for you. It knows the format of an RX50 disk, so doesn't have to guess. I use it myself (the author of TeleDisk), though increasingly, I'm relying on MCU-based solutions to handle floppies. I haven't touched TD since 1999, when we sold the rights to the program. It blows my mind that it's in use 24 years after its last incarnation. --Chuck
