ZX Spectrum

Comrades! How do you copy the subject
floppy disks into their own images in these unpronounceable emulators??? I tried to glue the hole that is near the big hole :)
Nothing helps :(((I tried everything - it doesn’t help at all... :( Really in the morgue? Well, share the secret, how do you do it??? I have Sinclair
games - ~100 disks, I wanted to write them off to emul, but here it’s a bummer see... :( Well, someone help
!!! Please...

You are welcome, All. Welcome to die. With beast wishes, - Andrew...

p.s. :)
p.p.s. Hurray, then there is Zx in Volgograd, I thought that you only had an elite
fido network ;)
Regards
Eugene

Saturday February 07 1998 01:08, Andrew Leslie wrote to All:

AL> Comrades! How do you copy subject
AL> floppy disks into their own images in these unpronounceable emulators??? I tried to glue the hole that is near the big
AL> hole :) Nothing helps :((( I tried it anyway - it doesn’t
AL> help at all... :( Really in the morgue? Well, share the secret, how do you do it
AL>??? I have Sinclair games - ~100 disks, I want to write them off in
AL> emul, but here it’s a bummer... :( Well, someone help!!! Please...

Disks must be in normal format. In general, RTFM! =)

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In distant times (08 Feb 98), Sip Eugene wrote on the scroll of Andrew Leslie,
Bequeathing "ZX Spectrum", and here is mine answer:
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EK> In general, the best of them in terms of readability is Lunterovsky (pre-botonic
EK> I don’t remember, unfortunately, who did TRDos) It reads almost everything, but it is necessary

It didn’t read a single floppy disk for me, although both UKV and Shalaevsky read without
problems!

EK> format DCU or something like that. although it also reads simple
EK> disks. sometimes the truth also depends on the drive (my neighbor’s 1.2 reads
EK> in general) So, in the Shalaevsky emulsion to distill from disks into
EK> images or format it on a PC (there was a program here that even ran for a long time,
EK> which simply formats the disk in ZX format), or drive all DCU
EK> disks.

I distilled the disks into trdshniki using 'maketrd.exe' - a cool program, weighs
only 9 kilos! Even better than the built-in utility in Shalaevsky, since it doesn’t care in
what sequence the sectors are located!

EK> Eugene

All the best. /──────────────────────\ [ Fantasy World - Rulez ]
Sincerely, │ Wanderer 'Sagacious' │ [ Getting up early - MustDie]
──────────────────────────────────────────────────/ [ Station 106.8 - Rulez ]
... And everything that can be done without punishment should be done...

AL> holes : ) Nothing helps :(((I tried everything - it doesn’t help at all.
AL> .. :( Really in the morgue? Well, share the secret of how you do it???
AL> I have Sinclair games - ~100 disks, I want to write them off to emul, but here
AL> it's a bummer... :( Well, someone help!!! Please...
"If all else fails, read the instructions." (c)-alien.

There was a FAQ here somewhere on all these matters. Ask. Maybe something will work out.
And if not, then read as I do:
1. Buy a connector for 3.5" from the nearest crowd. drive;
2.Simply pin it onto the Spectum cable from the drive;
3.At the PC in Shalaev you do it on any image: “From file to disk” and turn on
“Format”;
4.Unscrew the drive from the PC, screw it to the Spec;
5.Erase everything from the disk, but _don’t format_, you record what needs to be
distilled and then in Shalaev you do “From disk to file”

But this method is only suitable for small volumes, 3-4 disks.

With Best Wishes. [TEAM Speccy-r00leZ] [TEAM X-fILes]
[TEAM ┼he Pr0d!9Y] MaGeLan.

And there was a conversation on Monday February 09, 1998 at 01:10, Vitaly Samoylov to
Eugene Kalinin about "ZX Spectrum"

VS> I transferred disks to trdshniki using 'maketrd.exe' - cool program
VS>, weighs only 9 kilos! Even better than the built-in utility in Shalaevsky, so
VS> how does it not care in what order the sectors are located!
And can you throw it here? And then in Volgograd with emulsions and other things
problemmmm...

I’m leaving without saying goodbye, Alexandr.

Damn it! ... and on the side is a Body Code.
... A bad decision is one that cannot be changed. (Publius Syp)

AL> helps... :( Is it really in the morgue? Well, share a secret, how do you do it
AL>??? I have Sinclair games - ~100 disks, I want to write it off to
AL> emul, but here it’s a bummer... :( Well, someone help!!! Please...

RTFM! LMD!!! What do you need MakeFdi for? Eternal Glory to the comrade who did such a thing, and may his enemies die a day before him, leaving no offspring!

You are welcome, Andrew. Welcome to die. With beast wishes, - Andrew...

I greet you from the bottom of my heart, Andrew!

Sat Feb 07 1998, Andrew Leslie squeezed the keyboard, hoping that the following words would reach All:

AL> doesn’t help at all... :( Really in the morgue? Well, share secret, how do you do it??? 6.20/6.22 .

Hasta la vista.
Tim Kelly

VS> I distilled the disks into trdshniki using 'maketrd.exe' - a cool program,
VS> weighs only 9 kilos! Even better than the built-in utility in Shalaevsky, since
VS> it doesn’t care in what order the sectors are located!

Where is this located? Is it possible to throw it into the echo? Since it's so small :))
PLEASE!!!

Sincerely, Nickolay Zabrodotsky AKA ProfeSSor F0lken
■Unsubscribed at 20:58.
... There will be beer and there will be everything else.

One day on Mon Feb 09 1998 I was listening to Blind Guardian and suddenly I heard Max Lanskih
unsuccessfully calling out to Andrew Leslie. I couldn't stand it and decided to intervene

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AL>> Please...
ML> "If all else fails, read the instructions." (c)-alien.

Yeah. RTFM ;)

ML> There was a FAQ on all these matters here somewhere. Ask. Maybe it will work out.

It's too late, it was compiled (c) ;)
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In general, MakeFdi is a rulez, an emulator, I don’t remember whose, but it supports both .fdi,
and .trd - a complete sax. He spoils .fdi and he doesn’t disdain .trd... The most interesting thing is that Shalaevsky then without any problems reads what this unpronounceable
emul considers killed :)
And now the question for filling - there is such a program that uses .fdi in .trd
converts? Just so that it works normally?
And one more question - is there such a thing that allows you to use a mouse instead of Kempston Joistik? Well, I would just love to play Hero Quest then...

You are welcome, Max. Welcome to die. With beast wishes, - Andrew...

AL>> I want to write it off to emul, but here it’s a bummer... :( Well, help
AL>> someone!!! Please...

EM> Restore them with FUT, everything will be OK, if you’re using Windows,
EM> reboot into clean Dos 6.20/6.22 .

Y? What kind of program is this? I don’t have one :( But there is a steering MakeFdi!
But, alas, there is no normal .fdi to .trd converter :(((

You are welcome, Eugene. Welcome to die. With beast wishes, - Andrew...

Regards
Eugene

All the best. /──────────────────────\ [ Fantasy World - Rulez ]
Sincerely, │ Wanderer 'Sagacious' │ [ Getting up early - Must Die]
─────────────────── ────\──────────────────────/ [ Station 106.8 - Rulez ]

All the best. /──────────────────────\ [ Fantasy World - Rulez ]
Sincerely, │ Wanderer 'Sagacious' │ [ Getting up early - Must Die]
─────────────────── ────\──────────────────────/ [ Station 106.8 - Rulez ]

NZ> Where is this located? Is it possible to throw it into the echo? Since it's so small
NZ> :)) PLEASE!!!

KLUG BBS, I think it was called DISK2TRD.exe, I renamed it. There is a lot of
good stuff there for spec.

NZ> Sincerely, Nickolay Zabrodotsky AKA ProfeSSor F0lken

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AL> In general, MakeFdi is a useful emulator, I don’t remember whose, but
AL> it supports both .fdi and .trd - it’s a complete hack. He spoils .fdi and .trd
AL> doesn’t disdain...

The author already fixed this in 0.31, but damn image synchronization is a bastard!

AL> The most interesting thing is that Shalaevsky then, without any problems
AL> reads what this unpronounceable emul considers killed :)

Zx_emul - quite pronounceable.

AL> And now a final question - is there such a program that converts .fdi to
AL> .trd? Just so that it works normally?

Yes, fdi2trd, but there is a big _HO_, it will convert ONLY if FDI is similar to
TRD in the arrangement of sectors and the number of tracks, it
swears at any deviations!

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AL> Andrew...

AL>>> doesn’t help at all... :( Should we really go to the morgue? Well, share a secret,
AL>>> how do you do it??? I have ~100 Sinclair games
AL>>> disks, I want to write them off to emul, but here it’s a bummer... :( Well
AL>>> someone help!!! Please...

EM>> Restore them with FUT, everything will be OK, if you are using Windows,
EM>> reboot into clean Dos 6.20/6.22 .

AL> S? What kind of program is this? I don’t have one :( But I have a steering wheel
AL> MakeFdi! But, alas, there is no normal converter. .fdi to .trd :(((

Write a batch file using zcop !

AL> Andrew...

And it won’t be. TPD is a _hard_ format. 160 tracks, 16 sectors. All. Without
any additional sectors with incorrect numbers and other perversions. That's why no.

With all kinds of regards and wishes.
Igor.

... The earth must be loved at least for the fact that so many talents are buried in it.

AL>>> :(((
VS>> Write a batch file converter using zcop !

AL> Uh? Can you be more specific?

This is for converting FDI -> TRD !
%1 - name *.fdi
%2 - name *.trd

───────────< Import File: "FDI2TRD.BAT" >───────────
zcop.exe -f -x %1
zcop.exe %2 *.$*
del *.$*
───────────< End File: "FDI2TRD.BAT" >───────────

Respectively for reverse conversion TRD -> FDI, remove the "-f" key from the first line and put it in the second, and then:
%1 - name *.trd
%2 - name *.fdi

P.S. I think this body file will be of interest to everyone who needs to convert FDI to TRD.

P.P.S 2Igor Gruzdev: You can include this in your FAQ !

AL>> MakeFdi! But, alas, there is no normal converter. and
IG> no.

fdi -> trd no? I have two different ones.

IG>> Without any additional sectors with incorrect numbers and other perversions.
IG>> That’s why no.
SN> fdi -> trd no? I have two different ones.

Me too. But only the standard one. A non-standard one will no longer work. Or rather
should not go. I haven't tried...