I recently acquired a vintage sound card (MediaSonic Sound Commander FX - which seems to be a SB clone with stereo OPL2 and covox support) but unfortunately I could not find the drivers on the internet. The card came with two 5.25" floppies which I can't read due to lack of equipment. Can anyone help me create a zip archive of the contents? I can send you the floppies.
Thanks
That's a bit of a risk there. I don't think anyone _would_ steal them, but y'know. some jerkwad could.
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Hey, I can read them. I'm actually in the middle of a big floppy back-up project right now & I've gotten pretty good at it. 😉 I'm in BC so postage won't be bad. I'll send you a PM.
Edit: ^^ who the hell would steal two 5.25" disks for an old sound card they don't even own? Those have a street value of, what, negative one dollar?
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wrote:Hey, I can read them. I'm actually in the middle of a big floppy back-up project right now & I've gotten pretty good at it. 😉 I'm in BC so postage won't be bad. I'll send you a PM.
Edit: ^^ who the hell would steal two 5.25" disks for an old sound card they don't even own? Those have a street value of, what, negative one dollar?
Someone who actually _owns_ the card 🤣
Kidding aside, you're probably right tbh.
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I'd offer, but I don't trust my 5.25" drives. The one in my main desktop was throwing Track 0 errors when attempting to format unused floppies. I can't imagine what it would do to known working disks.
Insert new disk for drive A:and press ENTER when ready...The type of the file system is RAW.The new file system is FAT.Formatting 1.2MInvalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.
Explorer just up and crashes when I try to format through the GUI.
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From my recent experience, I've seen disks killing drives, but never the opposite. If a random disk comes out from your floppy drive with circular marks, you may not sue the drive for that but rather the disk. After this, you might verify with a "crash test" disk that didn't have any problem before and then you'll end up with an equally marked floppy. Then you'll assume the drive's dead. But in fact, that's just the random disk that you did put at first that made the heads dirty. All you need is to clean the heads and it should work fine after this
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wrote:That's a bit of a risk there. I don't think anyone _would_ steal them, but y'know. some jerkwad could.
Honestly, if they sent me the files back they can keep the disks. Deep down, I don't care to keep 5.25" floppies around.
On the other hand, I'm not terribly worse off if someone outright steals them, because I have no way to use them right now.
