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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: B00tDisk on March 26, 2006, 06:38:47 PM

Title: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: B00tDisk on March 26, 2006, 06:38:47 PM

Hey all...

In my ever continuing tinkering with WinUAE, I have acquired a box of Amiga software from a friend, basically stuff he didn't even know he had any more...anyway, among the junk was a regged copy of PC-Task (from '94; I'm assuming that's the latest).

Anyhow, for the hell of it I'd like to tinker with it on the ol UAE setup but I need an MS-DOS boot disk, preferably 6.22, but in either .DMS or .ADF format.

Can someone gimme a hand?  Something I can set up the hard-file with and really get sick (e.g., installing Win 3.1)?

Thanks in advance!

Oh and if you could email it to bsilvey@gmail.com

Much obliged!

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: bloodline on March 26, 2006, 06:41:41 PM

I've never managed to get an ADF of an MS-DOS boot disk to work in PC-Task :-(

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: amigagr on March 26, 2006, 06:42:31 PM

you can try with free dos (http://www.freedos.org/) too

-edit-
i think that you don't need the adf format as you can use direct a dos floppy in the pc

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: Amiduffer on March 26, 2006, 10:05:35 PM

I've used such a setup, from time to time before I used the office computers to format floppies.

Start PC-Task, load my trusty MS-DOS 5 boot disk, and voila, a 90's style PC. I still have the boot disk, i'm not sure how to copy it and email the thing to you, though. Is there a command on a PC to format a boot disk from a modern PC? That's how I got mine 5-7 years back.

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: amigagr on March 26, 2006, 10:13:28 PM

in win98/milenium you can format the floppy and check the
create an ms-dos startup disk. at winxp you can try to format an 1,44 disk that way and copy the files to a 720 floppy that you have formated in the amiga. i'm not sure if the late can make the disk bootable. i think i had troubles in the past with these dos disks and always searching for win95/98 pcs to format disks. i keep a lot of them just for this reason.

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: InTheSand on March 26, 2006, 10:27:21 PM

Hi,

Take a look here (http://www.bootdisk.com/) for various boot disks.

But I'm not sure if you'll be able to store a non-Amiga disk in a standard ADF file...

If the CAPS .ipf creation tools are available, perhaps you might have more luck there as IPFs can host a number of different disk formats.

 - Ali

Title: Re: An odd request, to be sure.
Post by: Legerdemain on March 27, 2006, 12:35:00 AM

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at winxp you can try to format an 1,44 disk that way and copy the files to a 720 floppy that you have formated in the amiga

It works perfectly fine to format 720KB floppy under XP, it is just that you have to do it through CMD. Though it has hardly anything to do with this thread, I just had to point it out.