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Article #42022Re: atari ST diskettes on PC
From: Malcolm Dew-Jones
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:15
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:15
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Philippe Cousson (philippe.cousson1@libertysurf.fr) wrote: : Thanks for your answer, but... : No, what I mean is how to get files, mainly texts, from diskettes first used : on an Atari ST, for use on a Windows PC. : Philippe I think the easiest would be to format a new disk on the PC, as mentioned elsewhere, and then use the Atari to copy the files to the new disk. I think you have to copy one file at a time because a full atari disk to disk copy will overwrite the bits required by the PC, and the PC won't read it after that. However, as alternative I recall that you can read the disks on a PC by using linux. You can get various very small distributions of linux (i.e. 3-4 diskettes only) that install and run "on top of" DOS/Windows using the existing dos file system. Unzip the linux distro into a directory, run linux-start.bat (or whatever it's called), and it boots into linux using your dos/windows file system. Now mount the atari diskette and copy the contents into a directory. Now reboot and you're back to dos/windows, and the atari files will be there on your hard disk where you put them. In the past I have used "mini-linux", but that was long long ago. There are much more up to date distros of linux designed to be started from dos/windows. You would need to google for them yourself, I don't know what they are.
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