Re: Trackstar Trackstore and disk images

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Bart writes ...
> 
> Question:  a 140k floppy disk when made into a Trackstore "disk" image on a PC
> becomes a file with the extension .app and a size of 266240bytes.
> Does anyone know of a way of using these files to create a standard disk image
> like emulators use, or, to move emulators disks to *.app format?

 ....

     You can create a standard .dsk image of a 5.25" diskette or Trackstore disk
using DSK2FILE. Since a 5.25" disk image is 140k bytes, the target drive (for the
.dsk file) needs to be a Trackstar virtual hard disk. See one of these FAQs files
for DSK2FILE info:

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/Csa2FLUTILS.txt
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html 


     You can transfer files back and forth between Trackstar 'disks' and your PC
using a Filetran utility. For example, you could copy a downloaded .dsk file from
a PC directory to your Trackstar virtual hard disk or from the virtual hard disk
to a PC directory. A Trackstore disk with Filetran stuff is included in the
Trackstar packages maintained in the GS WorldView archive at ...

http://206.14.25.120/~cturley/a2zine/Utils/ .


> 
> Also, does anyone know of a way to hook a real hard drive (as vs a up to 10
> meg emulated one) to a Trackstar?
 ....

     Don't know of any way to do that. 10MB is a decent hard disk, especially
since it's fairly easy to move files from your real PC hard disk to the virtual
hard disk.



Rubywand