Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!flatline!erict From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: is it possible to read/write Commodore disks on an IBM PC? Summary: Transactor magazine... Keywords: disks read write commodore ibm Message-ID: <685@flatline.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 16:48:08 GMT References: <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: den of sinister exaggerators -- houston.montrose Lines: 56 In article <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group) writes: >Does anyone have any software that will read/write/diskcopy/filecopy >commodore format floppies on an ibm pc? I want to download stuff >to a IBM PC and then write them to floppies that commodore drives >can read without getting someone else to download the stuff for me >since I don't have a modem for the commodore. There was an article in _Transactor_, back around the time that the 128's and 1571's came out, that dealt with using the mfm to read/write off of a whole bunch o other formats... [Five minutes later, our hero returns with an old copy of Transactor.] Here we go: "Table 1 is a summary of some of the common MFM disk formats. The list is by no means complete, but can be used as a guide when exploring various types of MFM disks. It is worth noting that many other brands of coputers use formats similar to those outlined in the table. Table 1: Summary Of 1571 Supported CP/M MFM Disk Formats Osborne DD Slicer Epson Euro (SD) Epson QX-10 (SD) Epson QX-101 (DD) IBM CP/M-86 SS IBM CP/M-86 DS Kaypro II Kaypro IV Other MFM Formats: IBM-PC-DOS 1 side; 8 sector 2 side; 8 sector 1 side; 9 sector 2 side; 9 sector TRS-80 DD TRS-80 SD" There's basic and PAL source examples for reading these disks with an explanitory article dealing with MFM itself... Let's see... this is the January 87 issue, Vol7 Issue4. I really liked Transactor when I used my C64 all the time. I wish somebody would make a magazine like it for the UNIX-PC... Ah well... -- Know Future "The tao that can be said is not the everlasting Tao." -- Lao-Tzu J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/