I used to love this tool back in the day for recovering floppy disks with bad track 0 issues. I've been looking around and can't seem to find it anywhere. More information here:
http://thingsorganic.tripod.com/smartformat_2_1.html
Anyone have it by any chance?
Unrelated, I'm looking for any cool / rare / fun-to-try DOS floppy disk/drive utilities if you have suggestions...
This appears to be SmartFormat 2.1: ftp://cyberia.dnsalias.com/pub/filebase/dos/tformat.zip (yes, the link works)
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Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. And yes, although the link was finicky, it eventually did work.
I've been scouring for interesting, old DOS floppy utilities and found a few interesting ones I'd recommend off one of the simtel archives:
fr1_00.zip - another floppy formatter that deals with bad track 0 issues.
cleaner2.zip - really cool program intended to be used with drive cleaner disks. The actuation of the r/w head is aggressive and turned out to be perfect for ensuring lubrication spreads out evenly when re-lubricating the stepper motor screw and drive head rail.
vgacp623.zip - absolutely bonkers GUI disk formatter/copier tool with integrated screensavers and all. It's kind of nuts.
Does somebody still have that tformat.zip file.. Its still harder to get.
~ At least it can do black and white~
Robin4 wrote on 2021-08-28, 14:40:Does somebody still have that tformat.zip file.. Its still harder to get.
The FTP link still works for me. Anyway, have attached it here incase the link goes down.
Thanks for your help. If i pressed on the url nothing happend. I dont know if it has anything to do with my opera webbrowser. Or perhaps using a to new PC with windows 10 64 bit on it.
~ At least it can do black and white~
Browsers are dropping support for FTP. Waterfox and Seamonkey still support it.
Is this too much voodoo?
Errius wrote on 2021-08-28, 15:09:Browsers are dropping support for FTP. Waterfox and Seamonkey still support it.
Even the obsolete Internet Explorer browser still support this.
Alternatively one could use FileZilla to access FTP links.
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Yes my second browser is also waterfox.. But dont know if the version iam using still support FTP. But i will give it a try right away.
Yesterday i installed filezilla because i need some files on a other FTP server.
Thanks for the advise you all gave me.
~ At least it can do black and white~
Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-08-28, 16:12:Errius wrote on 2021-08-28, 15:09:Browsers are dropping support for FTP. Waterfox and Seamonkey still support it.
Even the obsolete Internet Explorer browser still support this.
That is what I use to open the FTP links 😉
Edge as well in ie compat mode
Iam using this program now. Its great on bad floppy disk. Is there any option for 720KB diskettes? And or 5.25 inch floppy disks? specially 360KB and 1.2MB
~ At least it can do black and white~
