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Dave Frederickson · (This post was last modified: 06-26-2015 07:47 PM by Dave Frederickson.)

(06-26-2015 05:43 PM)Paul Berger (Canada) Wrote: People who play with old computers really need old tools too.

I agree 100%. The essential thing about creating discs from the TD0 images is the Floppy Disc Controller. In order to recreate these non-DOS formats the software requires low-level access to the FDC, so right off the bat, USB floppy disc drives will NOT work. Refer to the registry for a list of FDC's and their capabilities. An FDC that passes the single-density tests is usually necessary, like the Adaptec 1522A. You can test your FDC using TestFDC. Then just follow the instructions at the HP Computer Museum.

My machine is a 450MHz PII which allows me to run Win98SE or DOS. The computer has legacy interfaces so my EPROM programmer has access to a parallel port, but it also has USB. I can also disable the L2 cache and run LIFUTIL, which normally requires a slow machine due to the timing limitations of the software. The MB, CPU, and FDC were all found cheap on eBay.

Dave