CP/M to DOS conversion programs

From: Mike Davis <mike-cc_at_msdsite.com>
Date: Tue Nov 4 10:14:36 2003

On 3 Nov 2003 at 19:19, Fred Cisin wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mike Davis wrote:
> > My first need is for an Osborne formatted disc. I know that 22Disk can read
> > these disks on my PC, so I guess it could read the boot tracks also but that
> > is not one of the capabilities of 22Disk.
>
> There are two major formats for Osborne disks. (and a few variants)
> One of them is "double density", with five 1024 byte sectors on each
> track.
> The other is single density, with 10 256 byte sectors per track.
>
> > I'll look into TeleDisk and see if that will do the trick.
> The double density one might work.
>

TeleDisk looks like it is going to be too difficult to use. Not sure if it will even
work. It looks like it is for making copies from disks created on the same
platform that the program runs on. That is what I'm after.

I have tried 22Disk. I can take a CP/M disk created on an Osborne and read
and save files to a DOS file. I can format a CP/M disk for the Osborne and
copy files back to the CP/M disk. So, it looks like it's easy to read CP/M
disks on a PC without any special hardware. The only thing missing, that I
need is the ability to save the boot record to a file and restore it to the boot
track.

Seems like that is something that everyone that wants such a conversion
program, would need. But I can't find such a program.
Received on Tue Nov 04 2003 - 10:14:36 GMT