From: tlake@twcny.rr.com   
      
   On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 9:47:35 PM UTC-5, Tom Lake wrote:   
   > Has anyone successfully made actual diskettes from the DMK or DSK images of   
   Model 4 CP/M Plus?  I can create TRSDOS 2.3, 1.3, 2.7 and 2.8 as well as   
   NEWDOS, LS-DOS and other OS floppies that work on a real TRS-80 but I can't   
   make CP/M Plus diskettes    
   that will boot. I've tried creating them in an emulator that can use a real   
   floppy drive and I've also tried SuperCard Pro which has never failed me   
   before. My floppy controller is capable of single density and all other   
   compatibility tests.    
   >    
   > If you've been able to do it, please let us know HOW!!! Thanks.   
   >    
   > Tom L   
      
   What hardware couldn't do, software could!   
      
   I use a two-step approach to create diskettes for older systems.    
      
   First I use software made for the HxCFloppy Emulator (you don't need the HxC   
   hardware to run the software) to convert a DMK or DSK image into an SCP image   
   for SuperCard Pro.    
      
   Then I run the SuperCard software in Windows 10 that uses the SuperCard Pro   
   hardware (which I have) to create diskettes.    
      
   That works fine for most MFM-encoded diskettes (Kaypro, TRS-80, Color   
   Computer, TI-99/4A, etc.) but just can't make Tandy CP/M Plus disks. Instead   
   of an SCP image, I then used HxC to convert the DMK images to IMD format and   
   used ImageDisk to create the    
   actual floppies. That works!    
      
   I see that CP/M Plus uses a strange format. Track 0 is 18 256 byte sectors but   
   the rest of the diskette is 8 512 byte sectors! I'm going to contact the maker   
   of SuperCard Pro to see it they can make a change that will handle it.   
      
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