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SpooNMan
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 Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:33 am Post subject: Need Win app to format diskettes to 1.62 (12Mbits) |
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I really haven't bothered with floppies in many years, but I wanted to try a few games without setting up and motherboard+parallel port, etc..
I think I used to use Winimage back in the day, but I haven't been able to find a working dload link and it's not free.
Does anyone know of a better/free app to format diskettes to 1.62?
I also remember there being an issue with certain formatting programs where the disk would take nearly twice as long to load on the SWC DX
I made this back in the early 90's and I really lost track of what I was talking about.  I believe the 2.x relates to the SWC OS version that I formatted the diskettes on. I really don't remember though.
SWC (FLOPPY) LOAD TIME (PER 8 Mb):
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2.6.................54 SEC.
2.6FAST..........45 SEC.
2.7 ON 2.6......39 SEC.
2.7.................24 SEC.
2.8.................24 SEC.
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madman
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Doesn't the SWC itself format to 1.6? |
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SpooNMan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| madman wrote: | | Doesn't the SWC itself format to 1.6? |
Yeah, the SMD does as well. I just wanted something I could format to 1.6 while at the computer. I was PM'd a link to the regged version. So I'm good on this.
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Mystic_Merlin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| format a: /t:80 /n:20 |
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SpooNMan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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I do have the regged version of WinImage 8.5 as I mentioned...
It's not really a big deal anymore since I just formatted the few disks that I needed, but I couldn't find an option to format as 1.5MB (12megabits).
Maybe I'm missing something obvious.... It's been nearly 20 years since I've used this app.
From what I remember it was listed under Non-Standard Format (1.50MB)
Strange...
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