More than two floppy drives?
Added 2020-07-15 18:39:09 +0000 UTCThis was an interesting video to tackle that didn't really go how I planned. I thought it was going to be much harder to get 4 floppy drives installed and working once I finally got my hands on a 4 drive controller. But, they just worked. I had absolutely no problems with it at all.
So this video ended up being more of an exploration of why 4 floppy drive support was dropped and how it worked rather than just trying out the card. And in the end, I was just left annoyed that all computers didn't support 4 floppies.
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I use DSKImage by Mike Brutman: https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_downloads.html#DskImage it's mostly for PC files and I don't think I've tried disk images for other systems with it. But it works really well for that. IMD drives me nuts with its custom file formats so I don't use that despite it being one of the ones people like to recommend.
Tech Tangents
2020-07-16 00:20:54 +0000 UTCAwesome video as always! I hadn’t heard of the XT-FDC either, but I’m definitely looking into it now! I have a 386 machine with a 1.44MB drive, a 1.2MB drive and a GoTek emulator in it... and up until now I have just been plugging and unplugging the ribbon cable as needed. Also curious: which software do you use to write disk images from within DOS? (I usually just write images using the DD command on a Linux laptop with a USB floppy drive)
electricitynerd
2020-07-15 23:09:19 +0000 UTC
