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Datalight ROM-DOS floppy image creation (Emulation)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 05.02.2020, 15:59

> (Kernel 7 is the LFN-aware series, right?)
Yes.

> Buy a USB floppy drive, like I did (years ago). It works for the obvious
> 1.44 MB, 3.5" disks.
Valid solution, if you're not in a hurry.

> They seem to include a util called SYSXP.EXE, so I assume that's what you'd
> use atop Windows.
Their SYSXP.EXE is for Windows, what SYS.COM is for DOS. Even SYS.COM works in XP x86, if you ACK its question about full access to the drive.

> To extract files from a FAT .img, I'd just use 7-zip's 7Z.EXE.
And how do you create a new FAT image? Yes, it's a rhetorical question, because you can always have spare one lying around and making a copy of.

> For other uses, I'd use QEMU or
> libguestfs.
A little bloated, I think.

> But .BATs like these are still cool and useful, obviously.
I'm often looking for the more difficult ways. :-)

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