You could goto the original source, Cliff Lawson (one of the original
Amstrad team) mantains an archive of most Amstrad software.
The ppc disks are
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/files/ppcdisks.zip
Bye,
Deano
Dean Calver,
Eclipse Studio Ltd.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne M. Smith" <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: Amstrad PPC640 part 2 (bootdisk)
> Jim Strickland wrote:
> > Remember that the Amstrad ppc640 is a PC XT clone with double density
> > (not high density) floppy drives. It should boot any old version of
> > DOS after about 3.3, so long as it's on the proper floppy. These
> > things can be tricky to find these days though. If you can still
> > download DR.DOS 7, I know that works, since I've used it on mine.
> > Otherwise I'd be tempted to try FreeDOS. I'm in the same position,
> > though, I don't have any way of making low density 3.5 inch boot disks
> > for PCs anymore (unless I get busy and put my old PC back together).
> I've used a PPC640 before - the drive will read 3.5" HD disks if you
> cover
> the density select hole on the disk, reformat it to 720k and then SYS C:
> A:
> it. MSDOS 5 works great on PPCs. DR-DOS 7 works on anything :-)
>
>
> I believe this is the IBM ftp site:
>
> ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/
>
> From there you can get:
>
> 3_3boot.exe 126208 08-24-95 DOS 3.3 Boot disk with maint. Files
>
> or
>
> 5-25boot.exe 151819 08-24-95 DOS 3.3 BOOT DISK W/ MAINT. FILES
>
> -W
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 10 2003 - 02:37:00 GMT