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FDD emulators - fakedisk (read-only) + DF-IFS (read/write) (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 09.05.2010, 12:27
(edited by Arjay on 09.05.2010, 15:15)

> Have you tried fakedisk or DF?

No, as I what not aware of the existence of either. Thank you for this info which I am sure others reading this will find helpful. I have no need for either utils myself, however to further help others who do here is some additional information:

There is good high level info about both utilities in this 911.net "program to run (FILE.IMG), Help" thread. If the 911 forum page is ever down just go to the following page and follow the appropriate download links:
http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/ *** Neither appears to support ISO files - see shsucdx instead ***

Additional notes concerning FAKEDISK
Fakedisk is read-only but comes with GPL assembler source code. The distribution ZIP file is smartly called "fakezip.zip". See above links.


Additional notes concerning DF/DF-IFS

DF-IFS.EXE and DF-IFS.DOC are part of "DF (Disk Image File Utility) dosdf.zip from Mark Vitt (shareware, no source), DOS, original site unknown". DFS-IFS is contained within DOSDF.ZIP and is READ-WRITE.

To install DF and its related utilities you normally have to unzip everything and then run INSTALL.COM contained within the ZIP. However if you try to use the same destination drive letter as the source drive letter (e.g. if you are running it off a flash stick) the install program does not like it.

However this can easily be worked around in 2 ways: 1) Using SUBST to make a temporary new drive of the same drive, e.g. "SUBST E: C:\" or 2)Unzip DOSDF.ZIP into a directory where you want the files and then manually running UTILS.EXE which is a self extracting v1.1 PKZIP archive and will unpack 17 related utils.

The version 4 I briefly looked at has newer file stamps, however as it has no official apparent homepage I am not sure if this program is still being updated? Certainly the binaries look like they are older than their timestamps.

IMPORTANT: ** I haven't actually tested either program yet myself **

Complete thread:

• FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - DOS386, 07.05.2010, 05:07 (Announce)
  • HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive / Flopper - Arjay, 07.05.2010, 17:27
    • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 08.05.2010, 07:02
      • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:18
        • Other hardware floppy emulators - using USB sticks on ebay - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 16:43
        • DEATH / HxC SD card floppy emulator / Virtual Floppy Drive - DOS386, 13.05.2010, 03:51
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Rugxulo, 08.05.2010, 13:35
    • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 13:55
  • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 08.05.2010, 18:03
    • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - rr, 08.05.2010, 21:12
      • floppyem.sys - config.sys Floppy Emulator device driver - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 00:39
  • FDD emulator - Vehudis, 09.05.2010, 08:46
    • FDD emulators - fakedisk (read-only) + DF-IFS (read/write) - Arjay, 09.05.2010, 12:27
  • FYI: DEATH (again, after cca 30 years) - roytam, 09.05.2010, 09:48