beatkamp wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:09 am
Ah! So 800k is where I am going wrong. Ok, I will try 720k.
And... uh... wut???? I don't have to convert *.img files?
Geez, I wonder what else I am getting wrong? Indeed , the IMG loads up
perfectly on my Model-B. Trying out "Mind Shaddow" now and its great.
Hopefully I can post something here shortly once I figure out how to
create a floppy image with "sillyfun.exe", etc. on it.
The last thing, just use the HxC software to create a new image dos image and it lets you drag files into it. It's one of the options on the main menu. Or use WinImage.
Bit of an explanation about what's going on... IMG files are straight sector formats, you need to "know" what the sector layout is to be able to use them. FlashFloppy makes some assumptions based on size, and it knows that 360/720k IMGs are most likely to be IBM PC format, so serves the sectors up to the floppy interface accordingly.
HFE is a representation of the fluxes on the disk - the really "low level stuff". The floppy emulator doesn't care about the disk size or format or anything when it's dealing with HFE, it just serves up the low level stuff as described in the file. Whether it makes sense or not is up to the creator of the file. This is useful for converting actual floppies, using something like GreaseWeazle, into image files that can be used on the floppy emulator when you *don't* have a suitable sector format, or there are disk protections etc, etc.
DOS+ on the 186 coprocessor can deal with quite a few formats - it has a funny 640k format that it uses to boot (you might be able to get away with that as an ADF format disk, I can't remember - it's essentially ADFS), and then a native 800k format (very similar to archimedes ADFS, but the sector numbering is different). The latter needs to be converted to HFE as I recall as FlashFloppy doesn't have a native representation of it, although you can "describe" the format and use sector images (see the flashfloppy wiki for how).
DOS+ can also just read normal IBM format disks - 360/720k is fine. Hence, you can just get away with using the IMG files of these and not worry about converting anything
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