Windows to ST?

[Tupin]

I'm new to the ST, and just recently got mine working. I have a 1040STf, and want to move files from my PC to my ST. I'm having trouble taking the disk and taping over the HD hole to make it DD, any advice?

[+remowilliams]

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/154229-high-desity-floppy-disks-in-a-mega-st-2/

[Tupin]

Ok, I have a bunch of DD disks, but no way to format them or transfer files over to them in Windows.

[+remowilliams]

The ST will read 720K disks formatted in Windows. Try the following from a command line (assuming your floppy is drive A:) with a DS/DD disk in the drive.

 

format a: /u /f:720

[Tupin]

The ST will read 720K disks formatted in Windows. Try the following from a command line (assuming your floppy is drive A:) with a DS/DD disk in the drive.

 

format a: /u /f:720

Formatting them that way works, but I have less than 720k available and thus cannot put most programs on the disk.

 

Oh, and pretty much all programs come as .st files which don't load on the ST.

Edited December 21, 2009 by Tupin

[Thorsten Günther]

The ST will read 720K disks formatted in Windows. Try the following from a command line (assuming your floppy is drive A:) with a DS/DD disk in the drive.

 

format a: /u /f:720

Formatting them that way works, but I have less than 720k available and thus cannot put most programs on the disk.

 

Oh, and pretty much all programs come as .st files which don't load on the ST.

 

.ST files are Atari ST disk images - usually cracked games (freeware and shareware never came as .ST, instead .ZOO, .ARC, .ZIP and .LZH or self-extracting archives (with .TOS extension) were used for ftp uploads). The .ST files can be transferred either using Pera Putnik's FloImg and Simon Owen's fdrawcmd - provided you have an internal Shugart bus disk drive - or you can split them in two .MSA files (several times, just converting them into one MSA file may also suffice, as MSA is compressed) using Zorg's MSA Converter and unpack them on the ST using MSA 2.3+ or Jay MSA - Jay MSA also unpacks .ST files on the ST.

 

Oh, and never try using HD disks as DD - this usually results in data loss. Instead, buy a stack of used Amiga or ST disks and re-format them or buy new ones (you will find dealer URLs in this forum). And if you have Windows XP, the formatting command is "format a: /n:9 /t:80" - XP does not know the "/f:720" parameter.

 

Thorsten

Edited December 21, 2009 by Thorsten Günther

[desiv]

Was I the only one who read the subject line, and thought..

 

"Yeah, that's a good idea!"

 

desiv

[Tupin]

I got it to work, but do I need to copy MSA 2.3+ over to every disk?

[Thorsten Günther]

I got it to work, but do I need to copy MSA 2.3+ over to every disk?

No, why should you? You can copy it to one disk, better write "MSA 2.3+" on its label to find it again later, then use several disks for the .MSA files. And then you start MSA 2.3+ on the Atari and juggle through all the disks with the .MSA files to unpack them.

 

Thorsten

[Thorsten Günther]

Was I the only one who read the subject line, and thought..

 

"Yeah, that's a good idea!"

 

Yes.

[desiv]

Was I the only one who read the subject line, and thought..

 

"Yeah, that's a good idea!"

 

Yes.

 

I'm OK with that.

 

desiv