Re: Atari Newbie Questions

From	Martin Brunner <konigjh@tin.at>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.st
Subject	Re: Atari Newbie Questions
Date	2016-04-18 12:29 +0200
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David Wade schrieb:

> "It depends". Early Mega's have single sided drives and so won't read 
> 720k floppies which are two sided, only a 360K single sided diskette. 
> Later machines had a PC Style 720K disk and would read normal DOS 
> diskettes. However diskettes formatted on the Mega won't read on the PC....

Ah ok.

Well TOS shows me A: and B:. When I click on B: it says something funny
like "Insert Disk A into Drive B" and just will show the content of
floppy drive A: afterwards. Does this indicate if this has a two-sided
floppy?


> most games boot special code from floppy and can't be installed on a 
> hard disk.

Ah ok.

But which format should the games be in, so that i could copy them on disk?


> Its an old drive, how can it not be formatted yet?. All versions of TOS 
> support Hard Drives. The Mega 60 will usually have a Seagate ST277R RLL 
> drive in. Most of these have gone to drive heaven....
> ....

Ok, maybe it's broken but then I expect the system at least to do
anything else with the drive instead of not doing anything at all.

Guess the best option is that someone who knows how to do it just will
copy some games on disk for me. But these STX files do not seem to be
suitable for that purpose. Maybe I'd bring this computer to some meeting.

Thank you

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Atari Newbie Questions Martin Brunner <konigjh@tin.at> - 2016-04-17 04:07 +0200
  Re: Atari Newbie Questions Adam Klobukowski <adamklobukowski@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 00:34 -0700
    Re: Atari Newbie Questions Martin Brunner <konigjh@tin.at> - 2016-04-17 12:10 +0200
      Re: Atari Newbie Questions David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 13:47 +0100
        Re: Atari Newbie Questions Martin Brunner <konigjh@tin.at> - 2016-04-18 12:29 +0200
      Re: Atari Newbie Questions Adam Klobukowski <adamklobukowski@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 06:48 -0700

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