Re: Using 3.5" Drives (or CFFA) with 5.25" DOS3.3 Disk Images Directly

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

Guys,

Thanks to all you for your answers, but I think you're all missing the
guts of my question.

UniDOS, AMDOS, OzDOS, and DOS Master, as far as I can tell, all
require a working DOS 3.3 5.25" disk at some point: you need to
manually copy things over from the DOS 3.3 5.25" disk to either the
specially formatted 3.5" disks (UniDOS, AMDOS, OzDOS) or the specially
formatted DOS volumes on the Prodos Volume (DOS Master) with special
versions of FID.

I am looking to totally bypass 5.25" disks completely. I want to cut
out the 5.25" disk middleman.

Dos 3.3 Launcher looks like a possibility, though it looks like I'll
need to convert .DSK files to .PO files, which is what Dos 3.3
Launcher uses. It seems that CiderPress can do it, which is cool.

Can anyone confirm that DOS 3.3 Launcher will let me bypass 5.25"
disks entirely?

I forgot about the Game Server, which I was one of the early testers
for. This too, looks like it would work, but I'd have to hook up the
PC and the GS via a serial cable again, which is annoying: the two
machines are now pretty far away, and there's a good chance my next PC
might not even have a serial port. I have SuperDrives and Ethernet to
connect the two machines and that's what I'd rather keep using.

Again, thanks for the tips.

-Warr