rietveld Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Is there a way to use a PC to make disks for my ti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Some years ago I wrote some utilities for reading and writing floppy disks on the PC. You need a 3.5" or 5.25" drive, and Linux. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebottle Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 19 minutes ago, rietveld said: Is there a way to use a PC to make disks for my ti Yes, although I haven't done it in a while... You need a PC with a motherboard BIOS capable of using a 360kb DS/DD floppy drive. And "TI99-PC" software: http://www.99er.net/download2/index.php?act=view&id=243 As a side note: I didn't use Omniflop for Windows, just did it in DOS. I remember having to format the disk in a real TI PEB floppy drive first before I could successfully write disk images to it using TI99-PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Yup, I make disks all the time. I have an Asus motherboard (its on the compatible list), 360K floppy and XP installed. I have DOS 5 on a bootable floppy. I use TI99-PC, I boot off my floppy then I create all my disks using TI99-PC. Very simple once you have all the peices. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Frankly it's easier to hook up a HDX server and make them in the TI. In the FAQ I link to the post walking though the steps. If you have the xb27 cart it includes the software and is also available for the finalgromSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I use a gotek drive as drive 2 and a half ht floppy Drive as drive 1, (some prefer the other way around), then I can move my flashdrive files between the PC,(my laptop), and the gotek and I can also copy from gotek to floppy Drive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 hour ago, arcadeshopper said: Frankly it's easier to hook up a HDX server and make them in the TI. In the FAQ I link to the post walking though the steps. If you have the xb27 cart it includes the software and is also available for the finalgrom Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk I agree. Keeping around an old PC with the proper low density drive is cumbersome. I have installed in my PEB a second RS232 card dedicated to the HDX and all I have to do is plug in my USB to serial adapter into it connected to my laptop. The downside of HDX disk transfers is that they are quite slow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Thank you for the links. I was able to make a few disks using my old win 95 machine with a 5 1/4 drive and the software 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Supposedly I can use my SuperCard Pro to make physical disks from images. Have never tried it. Should add that to my List of Things To Do One Day™. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 pc99 has a utility to transfer whole disk. you start pc disk transfer on the ti, and pc99 + ti disk transfer on the pc and you have a choice to copying the disk one direction or the other. It uses a rs232 cable to attach both machines. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 I use the "old school" method. I copy the files in a .dsk or other file to my USB 3.5" drive on my PC with a TIFILES header using either TI99Dir or TI Image Maker. Then, I take the physical PC-formatted disk and put it in my TI and transfer the contents to a TI-formatted disk (I have 3.5" disk drives in it as well) and copy between them using PC-TRANSFER. Despite what the docs say, it will handle 720K disks. A bit slower, but it works just fine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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