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Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 2:49 pm
by mrmouse
Hi there. Back in around 1992, I wrote my own game for the Archimedes (we had an A3000 back then). It was a Tetris style game called DropShaft written in Basic and, from memory, had some funky music and scrolling text (of which I was very proud) on the high score page! I've carefully kept the floppy disk all these years (complete with hand drawn label) and I'd love to see it running again on an Emulator or on my Raspberry Pi. Trouble is, all I have is the floppy disk - I've got no hardware at all that can read it. How do I go about transferring the data off the disk?! Many thanks in advance...

Re: Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:01 pm
by JonAbbott
You either need to find someone with an Arc or RiscPC, or image it with OmniFloppy on a PC with a floppy. You will not be able to image it with a USB floppy, as they have a fixed sector size.

Re: Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:34 pm
by mrmouse
Ok, thanks. I think I did try a few years back with a USB floppy and found that didn't work. Unfortunately, these days there aren't many computers around with floppy drives. Hmmm...

Re: Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 1:28 am
by matburton
I'm very late here, but if you still need help and are willing to post the disk(s) I could image it for you.

Re: Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:46 am
by matburton
Shout mrmouse if you still want a hand (sorry I missed your private message)

Re: Accessing a legacy floppy disk without Archimedes

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:56 pm
by JonAbbott
matburton wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:46 am Shout mrmouse if you still want a hand (sorry I missed your private message)
The floppy has now been imaged. At some point we'll release it, once its been tidied by @mrmouse