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First post, by dataino.it

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The first I used to copy floppies and it showed the copy of each sector on the screen during the copy.
I remember the yellow rectangles that changed colour as the copy was made.

The second handled the images and I remember a colourful frog at start-up.

Someone remembers the names of the two DOS software,

Reply 1 of 5, by mkarcher

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dataino.it wrote on 2021-07-24, 22:56:

The first I used to copy floppies and it showed the copy of each sector on the screen during the copy.
I remember the yellow rectangles that changed colour as the copy was made.

This might have been VGACOPY.

Reply 2 of 5, by dataino.it

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Yes !! is it thx

Reply 3 of 5, by Shreddoc

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Ha! now that's something I haven't thought of since the 90's. How funny.

+ that whole jazz about over-formatting floppies to 1.7MB, so you could fit more files during teenaged bicycle visits to friends' places - I remember a phase of doing this.

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Reply 4 of 5, by pan069

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mkarcher wrote on 2021-07-24, 23:08:
dataino.it wrote on 2021-07-24, 22:56:

The first I used to copy floppies and it showed the copy of each sector on the screen during the copy.
I remember the yellow rectangles that changed colour as the copy was made.

This might have been VGACOPY.

Oh wow... Googling for screenshots, I used to use this but had completely forgotten about that. Amazing how an image can suddenly bring back memories like that.

Reply 5 of 5, by Jo22

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Here are the others, including screenshots! 😁

http://www.z80.eu/blog/index.php?m=06&y=18&en … ry180605-100000

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