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Vriting +D discs

Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
edited April 2003 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Does anybody here knows of a way to write +D discs
on a PC? Like, some utility to put .sna on +D discs,
or something like that...

Thanks in advance.
Post edited by Alessandro Tommasi on

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  • Bj?rn ErikssonBj?rn Eriksson
    edited October 2001
    Hi Alessandro,
    Have look at WOS? archive under Tools/PC.
    Amongst others you can try specutil.zip

    HTH
    Bj?rn
  • DavidDavid
    edited October 2001
    Realspectrum and X128 support real +D disks in the PC's floppy drive, but your floppy controller might not be up to it - the newer ones can't read/write the +D disks. See the emulator's docs for details on how to load the +D rom etc.
  • Bj?rn ErikssonBj?rn Eriksson
    edited October 2001
    ooops, my mistake. i?ll leave the topic to someone better equipped(?sp).

    Bj?rn
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited October 2001
    Trouble is (well, not really trouble) I'm a Linux user
    unequipped with Windows... I saw a nice nice little
    program for linux which allowed read/write to QL discs; I
    was hoping to find something like that for +D as well.

    Still, I can give a try at the emulators you mentioned
    within a vmware machine, but if there are HW issues
    that's going to be a problem. Thank you very much
    anyway, and I apologize for the misspelling in the subject.
  • rjbouwrjbouw
    edited April 2003
    Hi,

    Does anyone know how to format a 3,5inch DSDD disk in a -HD- diskdrive connected to a Plus D?? I'm trying to convert some old 5,1/4 inch disk to 3,5 disk, but i keep getting sector errors when formatting a disk.

    Thanks!
  • rjbouwrjbouw
    edited April 2003
    wooops, this probably shouldn't have been posted here...
  • LCDLCD
    edited April 2003
    @rjbouw: cover the HD index hole with something, if it still does not work, your drive is fault.
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