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From: v070mvl4@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Andrew D Szalasny)
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Subject: re:IBM to atari disks
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Date: 5 Oct 90 18:35:56 GMT
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When tranferring disks from the IBM format to the Atari format.....

the program that  have tried works....(It is the one that also gives you the
turbo pascal source code)

what you majorly need is:
1)A double sided, double density drive(i.e. the newest drive -not the 1050)
2)A dos that will save programs is the dos2.0 format

dos 2.0,2.5, and 3.0 don't work (can't write on double density drives)
and spartados doesn't write on disks in the 2.0 format.....
If you really have some old dos'es then perhaps topdos or OS/2 COULD do it

precautions to all this:
make sure the drive you format the disks on uses the centre hub notch....
the 1050 does not.....the IBM drive does.........

if there is some inventive IBM programer out there , the turbo pascal source
COULD concievablely be modified to read single density drives, and MSDOS could
be setup to format single density, but then you would still have to remake
VTOC.....(No, you cannot format the disk in a 1050 on the atari and port
due to the warning in the precaution)  an ATR8000 IBM compartible drive is
perfect for this porting....(I should know, I got the program to read
directories off my MyDos4.51(?) disks formatted in double density from that
drive...)

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