[sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)

[Francisco Rabazas]

Hello

Where I can get the images for my computer Genesys Z-90 (clone of Zenith) 
with floppy drive Z-37?

CP/M,  HDOS?

sorry by my English.

Speak Spanish?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harten" <harten at injectstar.de>
To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [sebhc] HDOS sysgen questions (and problems)


> In message <704e82240611041107y4f5ac9f6k23d8d88210cc5299 at mail.gmail.com> 
> you wrote:
>
>> I'll be willing to make images, but I don't have any software to do
>> that. The software I have (h89trans written by Dwight), only works
>> with the hard-sectored controller. If there is some other software
>> available that works for the soft-sectored disks, let me know. Which
>> software are you using to reproduce the disks from images?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>
> The easiest way is ( and that's how i do it) to use a nativ old MS-DOS
> (PC-clone) machine.
>
> Why that? These old machines have 5.25" floppy drives (often called 360 K 
> Drive)
>          and there is software for reading foreign disk formats.
>
> In detail:
>
> Hardware  286 / 386 / 486 are the best machines for backing up floppy 
> disks.
>          Not too fast 586 / pentium I will work also.
>
>          One 5.25" floppy drive with 40 tracks double sided (360 k) is 
> perfect.
>          A 1.2 M HD floppy drive will be able to read 40 track disks, but 
> not to
>          write back.
>
>          Another important thing is the floppy-controller. Most common 
> controller-
>          cards will be able to read even single density disks. A 37C65 
> controller
>          chip will read and write single density disks.
>
>
> OS        Native MS-DOS version 4.0 and above is the best choice.
>          Windows 95/98 started in DOS-Mode will work also.
>
> Software  TELEDISK is very easy to use and common. Images produced with 
> TELEDISK
>          are called TD0 as this is the ending of the filenames 
> xxxxxxxx.td0
>
>          There are several versions of TELEDISK, which are all a bit 
> different.
>          You have to try out which version works best on your hardware.
>
>          IMAGEDISK let you make more decisions on the way of reading the 
> disk
>          and works also great for me.
>
> I hope this will help You!
>
> Regards.
>
> Axel
>
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