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Making TRS-80 Model 4 system disks?

Twylo

Twylo

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Hi all,

I recently bought a TRS-80 model 4 at a flea market. After cleaning it up and repairing the power supply (it had a bad solder joint on the +12V line, which I understand is pretty common) it's in good working shape again. But, I haven't got any disks for it. None at all. Is there a method for making TRSDOS disks using a PC? I have a Windows 98 PC I normally use for archiving 5.25" floppies. It has an HD 1.44 MB TEAC that's proven very reliable at reading and writing 360KB DOS disks as well as a few other common formats. I'm not sure if it will work reliably to make TRSDOS disks or not.

I've searched around for how to do this, but I think my Google-fu is failing me.

If anyone has any pointers on making TRSDOS disks, please let me know!

-Seth
 
Although I've mentioned Matthew's emulator in the article, I normally use the Keil one myself.

Tez
 
Twylo,
If you download Imagedisk from here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

and the TRS-80 System disk image from here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/system.htm

You should be able to get it booting. But, why bother with TRSDOS? Why not download Montezuma Micro CP/M and use it.
It works very well with the Model 4.

http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/Software/cpm/2006/Operating System Packages/descript.ion
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/Software/cpm/2006/Operating System Packages/

I haven't used Imagedisk, so you will have to do a bit of reading.

Larry
 
Thanks for the great tips! I had no idea that system disks were available in ImageDisk format. That's great, I have ImageDisk already set up and running here and I'm pretty familiar with using it.

-Twylo
 
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