From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   Bruce Tomlin wrote:   
   > In article <1165355054.617775.272740@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   >  puritan_2076@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>I hate emulators, but to put disk image files from TRS-80.com on real   
   >>floppy disks, you must have an emulator. Is there one that will work on   
   >>a Tandy 1000HX or 1400LT, and if so, where do I get it?   
   >   
   >   
   > Well, you could always use a Catweasel board and dmk2cw from the cw2dmk   
   > package, but as long as your floppy controller supports 256-byte   
   > sectors, I don't see why there couldn't be a program that does low-level   
   > access to your floppy controller (just like the emulators, hint hint) to   
   > write the disks.  Or even full track writes directly from a .DMK file.   
   >   
   > And why are you so set on doing this with an old Tandy 1000?  What's   
   > wrong with using a regular generic PC running MSDOS?  CPU speed   
   > shouldn't be an issue; that's what floppy controller chips and DMA   
   > channels are for.  You just aren't likely to be able do it with a USB   
   > floppy drive.   
      
   Catweasel is now a PCI bus card but was probably ISA bus in older   
   versions. 1000HX is an 8088 and the 1400LT is V-20 (8088 compatible) so   
   neither will have an ISA bus (16bit AT bus) even. Do they have XT   
   compatible slots? Was there ever an 8bit XT-bus catweasel?   
      
   Get an SVD or an old pentium. Old pentiums are usually considered   
   garbage. You need an older one to support 5.25" floppydrives. But even   
   modern pc's can run MS-DOS. I created an MS-DOS boot floppy with   
   relocation to ramdisk (freeing the floppy) that ran the DMK emulator.   
   Booting this floppy I can do real TRS-80 floppies on this, not too old,   
   P4 that normally run WinXP (note: I use 720k 3.5" floppies with my TRS-80s).   
      
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