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Hi, finally I have managed to scan the first issues of this newsletter. Most of them seem to be copy of copy of ... so don't wait for an excellent pdf I have done my best ... I will be uploading periodically some issues. I know that some of them do exist in the archive, but as I have the original fo...

Hi Jon, just finished the DosPlus4.9b tests ... For simplicity I have used XRoar with the DosPlus49b ROM and Becker connexion. The 'standard' disks 180k, 360k double sided and 720K have worked without problems. The dreaded 360K single sided has given these results: - Copying from floppy to VDK file ...

Hi Jon, finally I had the time to work again with these dweebs (FLO2V and V2FLO) I added, as you suggested for DosPlus4.9, the needed code to update the number of sectors x track before each floppy disk access. I have modified the code so that now it 'understands' and 'treats' right the infamous dis...

Hi,
this is spectacular, really impressive, congrats!
Tested on my Dragon64 ... can't wait to show this piece of art to my sons that are coming today, they're going to allucinate, for sure.
Keep on pushing the Dragon to higher limits.

cheers
pere

Hi Jon, I could simply say yes ... to all of your notes. Certainly my dweeb does tweek the geometry of that ugly format and sends it out wrongly. That's a point to change in the future ... Concerning the DOS, I have only the ascii files I attached the other day. I am not willing to use DREAM any mor...

Hi Jon, last tests I have done were quite a nightmare! I did format a disk in my Dragon: DSKINIT1,1,80 and it created a 360K disk. When I sent it to DW4, I got a VDK that once opened with XRoar showed to be 360K too, great. But it had in the header the values $28,$02 (40 tracks, 2 sides) mainly beca...

One more observation (although it doesn't affect me because I don't have any disks in this format), your logic for setting the sectors/track to 36 on detection of a disk with 1440 sectors isn't correct for an 80T/SS disk. You are right, but I haven't used /tried any of this kind of disks. This 'spe...

Just out of curiosity, why do you need a 256 byte VDK header? Aren't the usual 12 bytes enough? Hi Roberto, I have three bat files to create VDKs that could be used with Drivewire, in this case the header length must be 256 bytes. But I have another three bats that simply add the 12 bytes header yo...

Hello Jon, I made the tests I promised. To be able to copy the original DSK files of the last NitrOS-9 version, I have added to them a 256 bytes VDK header with the geometry according to the VDK header rules, so that they are readable by DW4. Then I have copied the five disks (2x180k, 2x360k and 1x7...

Hi Jon, first of all, thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful piece of code. It is really very inspiring. I am sure that this would be the base to create a new dweeb to copy a single file from a VDK file into a floppy disk I have the Grosvenor DOS programmer's guide but had never used these special ...