
From Ron Mitchell.....................

Geoff, hopefully in a short while we'll be able to distribute 
some images with a basic kit of ADAM software. Meantime... you 
can make a disk image on the emulator using the program WRDISK.
EXE

WRDISK <filename.dsk>

Now that will create a default 160k ADAM disk image. Trouble is 
you'll find you won't be able to write to it. The trick that Dale 
Wick showed me at ADAMCON is that one you've got that disk image 
living in your ADAMEM area, you have to initialize it, the same 
way you woud any *real* disk on an ADAM system. What I did was 
to port over Tony Morehen's Filemanager 3.0  onto the emulator, 
where it runs just fine, and performs all the functions it would 
perform if it were running on an ADAM. Unfortunately that part-
icular version will not initialize anything above 720k  However, 
another program called FORMATX (also by Tony) will do all sizes. 
Once you've initialized the disk image that you created with 
WRDISK, you'll find you'll be able to use it with ADAMEM.

My current efforts are directed at finding out what other formats 
work and what dont. So far I've been able to format a 720K disk 
image in both EOS and TDOS. More when I get the rest of the 
figured out.

At the moment, it seems that these disk images if copied onto a 
floppy (using DCOPY.EXE) are not compatible with Rich Drushel's 
ADAMSERVE program. But I'm not absolutely sure of that yet.

Ron Mitchell


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