Is there any software which would let me mount floppy images and use as a real drive under MS-DOS?
I mean something similar to Alcohol or Daemon tools for CDs under windows, but for floppies under native DOS.
I was looking for something like that the other day, and I found this thread on VCF where they mention something called TurboImage:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?452 … -virtual-drives
I haven't had the time to check it out but it may be worth a try.
SHSUFDRV or SHSURDRV will do exactly that! http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsufdrv/index.html
You will end up with the virtual drive on a non-floppy drive letter (not A or B), however you can fix that with ASSIGN. For example, if your virtual floppy is mounted to F: via SHSUFDRV, simply type “assign a=f” to redirect requests for drive A to drive F.
The difference between *RDRV and *FDRV is, essentially, *RDRV stores the floppy image in XMS for faster access.
There’s also a SHSUCDHD program from the full SHSU package that lets you emulate CD and DVD images, just like Daemon tools!
Another option for floppy emulation is GRUB4DOS. It’s a boot loader, but it also provides INT13h floppy emulation (on the correct drive letters too) from outside of DOS, so it’s much stealthier.
GRUB4DOS and the SHSU tools have been very helpful to me in getting old laptops up that don’t have floppy drives. Normally, I hook the IDE or CF drive up to my MacBook, wipe them, create a 32MB partition for GRUB4DOS, write the GRUB boot sector and then transfer over the GRUB files and various bootdisk images (FreeDOS setup floppy, Windows 98SE bootdisk, utilities bootdisk (with FDISK, memory test tools, etc.). That makes it easy to setup the rest of the system.
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SHSUFDRV works as expected! Thank You very much! You solved my problem 😀
Nice small program. Best one i have ever used, i have no idea where i got it. It can replace A: drive directly.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
wow great! Thanks Cyberdyne!!!
Sorry to bring up an older thread.
I'm looking for software with this exact functionality, but that will run on an 8088 or V20 powered XT clone
Thanks!
You might also want to give ethflop a look. It's an open source TSR that emulates a floppy drive with the floppy images being served up over a LAN. Pretty cool.
Jove wrote on 2020-11-10, 22:56:Sorry to bring up an older thread.
I'm looking for software with this exact functionality, but that will run on an 8088 or V20 powered XT clone
Thanks!
I use a Gotek floppy emulator (hardware) for that purpose mainly.
Once flashed with FlashFloppy (or HxC), it can use floppy images on an USB drive.
It has the nice side effect, that I can transfer files to the XT from my old Power Mac, even.
In OS X, *.IMA/IMG files can easily be opened if renamed to *.DSK (if memory serves).
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Sorry for the resurection of this thread, but I was wondering if their is a software that can run ON a hard drive with DOS 2.10 for example, that will run on an 8088 CPU, that can write .IMA/.IMG files to physical floppy drives. Basically I am looking for a floppy image writing utility that runs on DOS with low system requirements (8088 CPU).
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I think SHSUCD utilities had something for this. I might be playing with that soon. It would be cool to not have to write floppy images on my NEC's anymore. Also useful for my website so people don't need an NEC to write the NEC floppy images for drivers and utilities and whatnot.
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ti101a.zip (960910) 30K TurboImage v1.01a: Uses image file as a drive
http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/diskutil-pre.html
launch with ti
then control-alt-t, press f5 to choose the image
then escape.
can do vgacopy, winimage, diskcopyfast, etc
SETBLASTER wrote on 2021-07-10, 04:02:ti101a.zip (960910) 30K TurboImage v1.01a: Uses image file as a drive http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/diskutil-pre.htm […]
ti101a.zip (960910) 30K TurboImage v1.01a: Uses image file as a drive
http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/diskutil-pre.htmllaunch with ti
then control-alt-t, press f5 to choose the image
then escape.can do vgacopy, winimage, diskcopyfast, etc
The link to the actual file does not seem to work for me currently .
Here is another source : http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/dis … UTIL/TI101A.ZIP (you may need to paste in a fresh browser window or tab due to browser security features as page is http , not https ) .
Alternatively, copy on archive.org is now available . https://web.archive.org/web/20210710041431/ht … UTIL/TI101A.ZIP
This utility can map any directory as a virtual floppy/cd drive. It has to run under pure DOS though.
