Re: Creating floppies from DSK2FILE 5.7

["Reynolds, Kevin" <kreynolds0@home.com>]

Well, thats just my problem.  For disks that have the .dsk extension, I use Copy
II + to format the disks in Dos 3.3 format, for the disks that have the .do
extension, I format them to ProDos format.  I have very little luck getting any
of the programs to work, although the ProDos disks tend to work more often.

Kevin

Rubywand wrote:

> "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