Re: [steem] Floppy disk question
- From: "Yoko Yamaki" <yoko_yamaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Apr 2004 15:43:04 +0200
Hi Amy,
I thought this list was dead! About the floppy's: I think Windos writes
something to the disks what confuses a real Atari (it will think that
there's a lot more free diskspace than there really is). Since I attach PC
floppy A as a harddrive to Steem (in the diskmanager), and use good old GEM
to copy files, the problem didn't come back. I format the floppys on Atari,
but in MS-dos format, that can be done the normal way with a STE-series
computer.
By the way, the steenauthors are much more active on this list:
http://www.atari-forum.com/ there's is a special Steem section
Yoko
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:19:22 -0600, Amy Macdonald <amacdona@xxxxxxx> wrote :
> I recently purchased a couple of boxes of the DD (double density) IBM
compatible
> floppies......I am in western Canada....
>
> The High Density disks are bad - they deteriorate very quickly if you try
to reformat
> them to DD and save your stuff on them - it is not even worth trying
(experience
> speaking) - unless you have a HD drive in the Atari....
>
> The floppies deteriorate also, but I do not know how quickly (also from
experience) -
> more like years though.....
>
> Let me know oif I can help in any way.......
>
> Amy.
>
> Tony wrote:
>
> > It's the floppies.. you really need to find low density disks, (
> > which is hard these days ) or just live with the slow death of the
> > HD disks..
> >
> > But if you keep copies on the HD of your pc...or on a cd.. its not
> > that bad...
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: steem-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:steem-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On
> > > Behalf Of Sengan Baring-Gould
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:46 PM
> > > To: steem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [steem] Floppy disk question
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I bought a real atari, and a real monitor. I made disks of various
> > Demos
> > > using my PC using HD floppies with the hole masked out with masking
> > > tape. However it seems that the disks I make with my PC are degrading
> > > over time very quickly. I am not sure whether this is due to using the
> > > HD disks or the drive is magnetized. Any advice of what to do?
> > >
> > > Sengan
> > >
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