Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Brunner Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari Newbie Questions Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:29:08 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <094816e5-dfc4-4f56-b458-d92e847054a1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:26:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="639593e152b2beb0f7b536f62ca90de8"; logging-data="7237"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18m8J09NHnoatkS1prlXRTd" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:+wyl6tEQfz235l6irU5oBraiG1M= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.atari.st:1460 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