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    Default ST notalgia/68000/ ST floppy Disks!

    I'm looking at, just for fun, an ST emulator.. Hoping to look back at my old code and smile....
    The problem is....
    I have devpac still (and a load of my old (MMU crew) STE demo's (thank the lord for the blitter)) only on ST formatted floppy disks... If they were 9sectors/track I could easily just change the boot sector to a dos one, but they are all 10 or 11 sector formatted disks..
    If there is a way to read the contents from a PC easily, I would be surprised.. And I have no machine with floppy drives in anyway..

    Has anyone got (HiSoft's) Devpac as a zip? Anyone tried to sector-read >9 sector disks on a PC, or will windows throw the "trying to access resources directly" error.?

    Only option seem to be If I could, I'd xmodem them accross over serial, if I can find a working ST still.. Anyone got one to lend/sell?

    Kind regards..
    NEAL

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    Default Re: ST notalgia/68000/ ST floppy Disks!

    http://www.emulators.com/explorer.htm sounds like it might do it?

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    Default Re: ST notalgia/68000/ ST floppy Disks!

    Thanks, Looks fun!! I'll have a play...!
    I did notice the "spectrum 512 isn't supported" bit which probably means a lot of my old graphics code won't work properly (VBL for overscanning/HBL for palette switching for 512 color) because the timing will be fractionally different to a proper 16Mhz ST..
    Plus, looking at it, where would the overscan areas be on an emulated ST window? The picture can't stick out above, below, and to the sides of the 320x200 window if it's in a windows window.. Even if its fullscreen I can't see how.. Will find out though.. I must have a tcb demo still around somewhere that will be my 1st test!!

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