Forum Rules - Formats - Spotlights  -  Home - Library - New Additions

Geoworks missing link?

FAMICOMASTERFAMICOMASTER
edited August 2015 in Software
Okay, so rewind a few years (around 3 or 4) and you might have seen me walking home from the local (now closed) video / tack store with like 4 boxes containing around 2,000 floppy diskettes each. Fast forward to today, and I'm searching through all my diskettes to find blank disks to use for MS-DOS images to get a system working again (some variation of an HP Vectra with an NEC BIOS and a Packard Bell part number, what fun) when I discover 4 disks particularly. They are labeled 'Geoworks Disk 1/5,' '2/5,' '4/5,' and '5/5'. I'm missing the 3rd disk of the bunch. When I get to the installer, I can clearly see that these disks were NOT meant to be used by the public, because it looks nothing like any other Geoworks installation I've ever seen in my life. There are losts of things indicating this might either be a beta or even a demonstration version of the program. I would like to know if I should upload what I have of the disks or if someone else has the disks already and can get me a disk image of the third diskette so I can try it myself. If needed I can find a way to post pictures of the disks and screenshots.

Comments

  • mikethepcmanmikethepcman
    Speaking as a Geos fan, can you post what you have? Thanks.
  • FAMICOMASTERFAMICOMASTER
    Will do. Anyone got any ideas on what it might be?

    P.S. Where do I upload it to? Mediafire? Dropbox? Google Drive? Where should I put it?

    EDIT: I forgot something very important... How do I make disk images of the floppies and does it work with Windows 7 Home Premium and USB Floppy drives?
  • garirrygarirry
    I believe you could use some sort of standard disk manager (all I know is that on Mac, you could probably use Disk Utility for that), and turn it into an image file. W7 should still recognize old floppies. Also, you can upload to Dropbox, which is the simplest to use (but you got only 2GB). You could also request uploading the files on this website (that is, only after you figure out in more detail what is contained in the floppy disk).
  • buriccoburicco
    WinImage works on 7. Not sure if it can handle USB drives.

    Remember to write protect, just to be sure.
  • FAMICOMASTERFAMICOMASTER
    I only have a USB floppy drive for this system. It's Windows 7, as well.

    Closest I got is an XP Laptop with a floppy drive that barely works.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Winimage can use USB floppies just fine. Best program to use is DD. It's mainly a Linux/BSD program but it also has been ported to Windows. The windows version is a bit harder to use since you need the mile long drive address.
  • FAMICOMASTERFAMICOMASTER
    My Linux laptop doesn't have any support for floppy diskette drives, PCMCIA or USB, Ubuntu won't let it read properly and the system looks at it as a Wireless adapter (PCMCIA) and as a 999TB (???) USB Thumb drive.

    I need something that works with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. WinImage doesn't work for that.

    Should I just copy the files and compress them?
Sign In or Register to comment.