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Article #42023Re: atari ST diskettes on PC
From: xlator
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:25
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:25
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In message <47fbfc79$1@news.victoria.tc.ca>, yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca said: > >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. There is a simpler solution if you still have the Atari, and the diskettes are standard 80 tracks and 9 sectors/track: There is a PD program called DISKMOD.TOS (7187 bytes) that needs BLOCK0.DAT (512 bytes) in the same directory. If you put the old Atari disk in the drive (with write-protection off) and then run DISKMOD.TOS, it writes a new IBM-style boot sector (from BLOCK0.DAT) to the disk *without affecting anything else on the disk*. You can then run the disk on the PC. I suggest for the first disk or two you make a back-up first on the Atari, but I have never known it to fail (although there may be problems with 'skewed' formats, but the older Ataris did not produce that). If you have problems locating the programs, send me your email addrress and I'll forward them to you. Regards, /Peter/
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