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First post, by general_vagueness

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(not that kind)
What's a good utility for making them from files you have, and for editing stuff like boot sectors, and how do I boot from one in DOSBox?

edit: my problem was solved and then thwarted by another problem, but if you're looking for imaging software, this is a good thread

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Reply 1 of 21, by Dominus

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What's a good utility for making them from files you have, and for editing stuff like boot sectors,

search google, there is some good program for floppy images, should be easy to find.

and how do I boot from one in DOSBox?

looked at the manual yet?[/quote]
by reading the manual...

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Reply 2 of 21, by leileilol

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VGACopy for 3.5"s, Resqflpy for 5.25"s

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Reply 3 of 21, by general_vagueness

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My German started out rusty and is worse, will I be able to use this?

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Reply 4 of 21, by leileilol

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YES! Run ENGLISH.EXE and itl'l Englishize die deutsch programm

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Reply 5 of 21, by general_vagueness

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thanks, I'll try it out and say how it goes

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Reply 6 of 21, by AlienBZ

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I use WinImage to make images out of my floppies. Perhaps it might help you, too.

http://www.winimage.com/download.htm

For me WinImage is easy to use and it's written in English.

Reply 7 of 21, by leileilol

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I don't like WinImage because it always prompts a dialog for every bad sector - this makes imaging floppies a bit tedious.

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Reply 8 of 21, by Jorpho

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And I don't like WinImage because it's shareware. I see no point in paying thirty bucks for something with such a specific application.

I usually make do with RaWriteWin.

Reply 10 of 21, by general_vagueness

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Thanks guys but I can't seem to make an image from files with either VGACopy or Floppy Image, which is what I wanted to do, not image an existing floppy-- if there's some shortcut to making DOSBox boot differently without creating and specifying a floppy image I'd like to know about it.

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Reply 11 of 21, by Dominus

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if there's some shortcut to making DOSBox boot differently without creating and specifying a floppy image I'd like to know about it.

I don't quite understand what you mean with this? You must have some reason to use the boot feature of Dosbox. The only reasons I know of is to boot a dos based OS (except for the booter games). You NEED some kind of image to boot from it, that can be a floppy image or a hard drive image...

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Reply 14 of 21, by HunterZ

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It does look like WinImage can create images from files.

WinImage says it's shareware, but it looks like trialware to me. Does it disable itself after the 30-day trial, or is it on the honor system?

Reply 15 of 21, by Jorpho

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Actually, if you want to make an image from files, you should be able to do that with Virtual Floppy Drive.

Reply 16 of 21, by Tetrium

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HunterZ wrote:

It does look like WinImage can create images from files.

WinImage says it's shareware, but it looks like trialware to me. Does it disable itself after the 30-day trial, or is it on the honor system?

After 30 days *cough ahem* it disabled the pro thingy but will still work with floppy images. I use version 4 and version 8.

Reply 17 of 21, by HunterZ

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Tetrium wrote:
HunterZ wrote:

It does look like WinImage can create images from files.

WinImage says it's shareware, but it looks like trialware to me. Does it disable itself after the 30-day trial, or is it on the honor system?

After 30 days *cough ahem* it disabled the pro thingy but will still work with floppy images. I use version 4 and version 8.

What features get disabled after 30 days? I couldn't tell from the web site.

Reply 18 of 21, by general_vagueness

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MagicISO seems like it should do what I wanted but, well, remember the thread I made a long while back asking for assembly help? I was working on a boot loader, and I seem to have forgotten most of what little I knew of assembly and deleted NASM and my helpful little files with assembly information at some point (they might still be on my laptop which is pretty much unusable at this point) so I'm not even sure how to pad it out to 512 and add the 0x55 0xAA, and I don't feel like starting all over again at this point.

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Reply 19 of 21, by HunterZ

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Padding and adding bytes sounds like something you could maybe do with a hex editor?