[Coco] Making a disk image

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Leon Howell may have mentioned these words:
>I can download a disk image, but then what do I do with it? The instructions
>on the NitrOS-9 project web site require a version of MS-Windows with a
>command prompt. The only public access pee seas in town with working FDD's 
>use
>something called Windows-XP.

My condolences. ;-)

>  It's apparently a very recent version, and does
>not have MS-DOS or a "comand prompt".

Oh, but it does. Click <Start>, then <Run> and type in: 'cmd' without the 
quotes, and press Enter.

That will pop up a command line interpreter window.

>  Is there a "Windows-XP" compatable
>version of Dskini and Retreive?

It would help for us to know what brand/version of emulator you're trying 
to use -- if you're using MESS (which I started using last nite to re-learn 
OS-9) just download the .dsk version of the file, save it where you plan on 
saving your disk images, and change the file extension to .os9. Then you 
can boot from it in MESS.

If you don't want to use an emulator, and you just want to make actual 
floppies, it would still help to know what emulator package you got the 
utilities from. You will need to make sure the utilities were compiled for 
the 32-bit environment of Windows NT - either WinNT4, Windows 2000 or 
Windows XP; they're pretty much the same kernels, just different GUIs & 
whatnot.

Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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