Re: Creating floppies from DSK2FILE 5.7

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

"Reynolds, Kevin" writes ...
> 
> I have been attempting to create floppies from some of the Asimov
> archive that I had stashed on a CD in the back room.  My luck has been
> mixed.  I successfully created a copy of Beyond Castle Wolfenstein on a
> 140k disk which appears to run perfectly, and a copy of Pirates! on a
> 800k disk, but my copy of Conan, and most other games just drop me to a
> monitor prompt.
> 
> My process is I format the disk with Copy II plus with the right format,
> either Dos 3.3, or ProDOS (I know this probably doesn't matter, but I do
> it anyway).  I grab the disk image on my mac, and I extract it with
> stuffit expander, as most programs are gzipped.  I then use dsk2file to
> create an image of the correct type on the correct disk.
> 
> Any flaws in that?
 ....

     Could be.

     Nearly all disk images with the .dsk suffix are going to have DOS 3.3
sector ordering whether the disk boots DOS 3.3, ProDOS, or some weird-DOS
variant. Except for .po images, you should, almost exclusively, be selecting
the "DOS 3.3 order" option for creating diskettes with DSK2FILE.

     Copy II Plus should work fine for formatting. For DOS 3.3 formatting it
sets Volume number to 254, which is the default and, almost always, a good
choice. However, for a ProDOS formatted 5.25" diskette, Volume number will be
set to 1 (normal for ProDOS).

     While ProDOS does not care much about Volume number, DOS 3.3 does. The
diskettes you use as targets should, in general, be formatted for DOS 3.3
using the default Volume number (254).




Rubywand