Deskmate and dos for Tandy 1000 TL

I recently brought a tandy 100TL from ebay. most of the deskmate and dos is on the hard drive. But they erased some of deskmate and dos. I need Tandy 100 TL deakmate and Dos on 3.5 720kb disketes. Thay have the programs at a Tandy 1000 TL website for download . I just dont know how to get them on to 3.5 720 disks . With my modern computer a , (dell dimensions) wich has a 3.5 bay but does it accept the 720kb disks. If so I will have no problem. But If knot I have no wy of getting deskmate and dos for Tandy 100TL on disks. I was wondering if anywone with a vintage computer and internet could dowload and put it on disk for me. And I will pay them. The website is Tandy 100 TL with photos. I think #2 on the search list and has a download link for deskmate and dos for tandy 1000's. I would appreciate it and gladly pay for it . Thank You

Is Deskmate model specific? I'm already making Deskmate disk images for someone else from the disk I have for my Tandy 1000TX. Is it universal?

-VK

Not universal, but easily available. Some were very version/machine specific.

See: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html

Some of the Tandys boot up with the main part (kernel?) of DeskMate in ROM, others load it entirely from disk.

--T

Yep, the 1100FD is a good case in point. The provided floppies do NOT contain all the software. If you don't have the ROM in there, you can't get it to work on that machine.

I believe the TL is another one that can be setup to boot from ROM (or is that feature only present in the TL/2?). One (perhaps the only?) important machine-specific file on the DOS disks is the Setup. It should have a name like 'SETUPTL.EXE' or similar. That prog allows the user to choose the boot options, ROM vs disk, etc, which are then written to a (semi)non-volitile EEPROM.

--T

Can you find some way to get me dos and deskmate 3.5 720 disks. I would be gratefull and pay the person

If your modern machine is running anything lower than XP, you should be able to format, read and write to a 720K diskette, even in a 1.44 floppy drive.

If you are running XP or better, you should still be able to write to a 720K disk, although you would have to have formatted the disks in another machine as described above.

If you don't have 720K disks, you can make them by blocking the hole in a 1.44 that DOESN'T have the write protect slider with some electrical tape (or anything else that isn't transparent or translucent and format it as a 720K disk.

THEN you could download the images to your modern computer, write them to your pre-formatted 720K disks and extract them to your 1000.