smp
Veteran Member
So, here I am with a good working Northstar MDC-A4 single density floppy disk controller and a bunch of single density floppy disks that have Northstar DOS and BASIC or Lifeboat Associates CP/M 1.4 on them. All working fine.
I now also have an apparently working Northstar MDS-AD double density floppy disk controller, but no boot disks.
I want to load Northstar DOS for the Northstar double density controller into my system somehow.
I tried to use Dave Dunfield's NST (Northstar Transfer) program, but the code that runs on the Northstar side required that Northstar DOS already be loaded into the machine! It appears that NST is great for transferring disk images over once you are already up and running with Northstar DOS - but it is not a start-from-nothing way to get the first image of Northstar DOS into the system.
Does anyone know of a way to start from absolute scratch and push the double density version of Northstar DOS into a system?
Thanks in advance...
smp
I now also have an apparently working Northstar MDS-AD double density floppy disk controller, but no boot disks.
I want to load Northstar DOS for the Northstar double density controller into my system somehow.
I tried to use Dave Dunfield's NST (Northstar Transfer) program, but the code that runs on the Northstar side required that Northstar DOS already be loaded into the machine! It appears that NST is great for transferring disk images over once you are already up and running with Northstar DOS - but it is not a start-from-nothing way to get the first image of Northstar DOS into the system.
Does anyone know of a way to start from absolute scratch and push the double density version of Northstar DOS into a system?
Thanks in advance...
smp