It is Steem specific, and not fully developed.

To repeat reading of whole disk 4-5 times, and it will have at My experience is that with old floppies is good MSA' is checked.īy floppies in bad condition it is worth to set Retries to value 2-5. Will save converted image file in same DIR. If it helps not, floppy is likely in bad shape -įrom ST to MSA or vice-versa of opened image file (with Open Image file but.).

If getting messages about RNF abort with right mouse buttonĪnd check on format. with MSA images it should be never necessary (case of It you may correct parameters if they aren't OK ( for experts only ! ) (ST, DSK or MSA) to floppies, with or without format - ifĬhecked it will work slower, but may be necessary if target disk isįormatted with different parameters prior. MSA files will be saved RLE compressed - it stays for conversion Or MSA file, and generate log file (if checked) with same name, but Then you my modify CHS parametersīy need and by hand - if you know what are youĬhoose ST, MSA or DSK, give filename and prg. IfĮxclamation mark in red appears: floppy parameters are invalid, Is my special Sinclair ZX Spectrum floppy format. Right by box with geometry of floppy small icon with description It will read parameters of disk, and display

Of floppy: insert floppy in drive and click on iconĪ at top left. To set floppy heads, but replacing drive with other may help. Settings between PC and Atari floppy drive. As I see age is not problem in most cases, some old ones areĮven better than average news. PC and Atari have different floppyĬontroller chips, so high quality of recording is a must - use goodįloppies. Working floppies on real Atari, which were written with program (from It is about 5 years since first version is Separated info boxes for floppy and image file, easier usage, betterĬompressed MSA images. Still, not possible to write tight packed ones with 6KBĭata per track. STT write support - possible to write floppies with mixed 512 byte andġK sectors. Problem is when people writes things which they even did not try (properly) - like about WFDCopy. Situation is now better, and of course people like to hear different opinions. That's where you may expect fastest answer.Ĭonsidering popular Atari forums: I saw lot of misguiding answers in them. I strongly recommend for beginners that read carefully this usage

without floppyĭrive access, for extracting files from images, conversion etc.) (If you have Win98 or 95 you may still use this prg. It is for built-in floppy drives, not for USB So, first thing is that you install fdrawcmd Uses Simon Owen 'sįdrawcmd - low level floppy driver, which overrides limitations of With emulators on PC, data preservation.Then, file transfers &įiles onto floppies. Purpose of this program is making image files of floppies - for

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