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Dragon Floppies
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:48 am
by geirhovland
Has anyone tried to connect an external 5.25" USB floppy drive to a PC to backup old Dragon disks with VCOPY.EXE ?
Alternatively, I have a dual floppy disk station from Dragon Data 1984 with a 34-pin connector at the back. Has anyone tried to make a USB connection for this drive?
I have about 200 old Dragon floppy disks which I would like to backup...
Regards,
Geir
Re: Dragon Floppies
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:33 am
by geirhovland
Looks like I found what I was looking for:
http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html
I will buy this product and try to connect my 1984 Dragon Disk station with my Win7 PC via USB.
/Geir
Re: Dragon Floppies
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:40 am
by rolfmichelsen
Hi Geir
I went through this exercise a while ago, and I opted for reading the diskettes on my old Dragon using the old Dragon diskette drive. I wrote a small program back then to read the diskettes and dump them in VDK format to a PC over a serial connection.
-- Rolf
Re: Dragon Floppies
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:53 am
by geirhovland
Thanks Rolf,
his solution is available here:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=238
Of course, with this solution you need access to a working Dragon 64 with an RS232 port. With the USB option, you just need a PC and the Dragon's floppy drive and disks.
I am going to try both options and post the results here.
/Geir