dsk to floppy copy on a PC to be used on msx

By sdsnatcher73

Prophet (3406)

10-05-2022, 13:09

Use this tool to write to floppy disk.

By AndreV

Master (158)

10-05-2022, 13:50

Ok, don't know this one gonna try it

By spanjed

Resident (33)

10-05-2022, 16:10

sdsnatcher73 wrote:

Use this tool to write to floppy disk.

You sir are a life saver ;)
Although the program performs a bit unstable under windows 11 i managed to put all 4 snatcher .dsk images on real floppy's and they work.

In my case i did had to format the floppy first on msx and then format + write again with Floppy disk manager (but hey, it works at the end)

Thanks sdsnatcher73 and Andre for the great help

By Manuel

Ascended (18873)

10-05-2022, 22:01

As posted elsewhere: on Linux you can simply do cat disk.dsk > /dev/fd0 to write a disk image to floppy on your PC. Or, equivalent: dd if=disk.dsk of=/dev/fd0
No special tools required.

By mcolom

Master (249)

11-05-2022, 00:35

Manuel wrote:

As posted elsewhere: on Linux you can simply do cat disk.dsk > /dev/fd0 to write a disk image to floppy on your PC. Or, equivalent: dd if=disk.dsk of=/dev/fd0
No special tools required.

And you can even use the cp command, as if the devices were regular files. So simple on Linux

By eimaster

Champion (272)

17-05-2022, 05:29

Wild_Penguin wrote:

If you have a DOS disk, it should tell you the free space after 'dir' (I don't know hot to show free / total space from Basic, or if that is even possible).

Yes you can get a lot of info including free space left on disk through BASIC. Just run this BASIC program with a disk in drive and it will show a report about it. I don't know if BASIC can return infos about the drive itself as well.

10  SCREEN0:COLOR11,1,1:WIDTH40:KEYOFF
20  PRINT "Disk Characteristics"
30  PRINT STRING$(27,"-"):PRINT
40  PRINT "OS Supplier          :"
50  PRINT "Bytes per Sector     :"
60  PRINT "Sectors per Block    :"
70  PRINT "Sectors Reserved     :"
80  PRINT "Number of Fats       :"
90  PRINT "Entries per Directory:"
100 PRINT "Sectors per Disk     :"
110 PRINT "Disk Type Identifier :"
120 PRINT "Sectors per FAT      :"
130 PRINT "Sectors per Track    :"
140 PRINT "Disk Sides           :"
150 PRINT "Hidden Sectors       :"
160 A$=DSKI$(0,0):C=256
170 E=C*PEEK(&HF352)+PEEK(&HF351)
180 DEF FN A(X)=C*PEEK(E+X)+PEEK(E+X-1)
190 DEF FN B(X)=PEEK(E+X):LOCATE 23,3
200 FOR I=E+3 TO E+10
210   PRINT CHR$(PEEK(I));
220 NEXT I
230 LOCATE 22, 4:PRINT FN A(12)
240 LOCATE 22, 5:PRINT FN A(13)
250 LOCATE 22, 6:PRINT FN A(15)
260 LOCATE 22, 7:PRINT FN A(16)
270 LOCATE 22, 8:PRINT FN A(18)
280 LOCATE 22, 9:PRINT FN A(20)
290 LOCATE 23,10:PRINT HEX$(FN B(21))
300 LOCATE 22,11:PRINT FN A(23)
310 LOCATE 22,12:PRINT FN A(25)
320 LOCATE 22,13:PRINT FN A(27)
330 LOCATE 22,14:PRINT FN A(29)
340 PRINT "Disk Capacity        : ";
350 BS=FN A(12):SE=FN A(20)
360 'LOCATE 22,16,0
370 PRINT USING "###,###";SE*BS;:PRINT" Bytes"
390 PRINT "Available Space      : ";
400 D=DSKF(0):S=FN B(13):'LOCATE 22,17
410 PRINT USING "###,###";D*S*BS;:PRINT" Bytes"