Hyperfrog
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Let's say I have a bunch of 5.25" floppy disks with games on them. They're not readable under DOS because they use oddball formats, but they're bootable. When I want to play such a game, I have to use its floppy to boot the PC with. Sooner or later, the floppy disk will fail, and the game will be lost.
I know I can make disk images with Teledisk or Dave Dunfield's IMD program. (BTW, the latter is a really good program for creating disk images.) However, I still need to write the disk image to a floppy disk when I want to play the game, and eventually, floppy disks will be as rare as the dodo bird. What I would like to do is copy the game to the hard disk, and load it from there. If I could mount floppy disk images under DOS, it would be a step in the right direction, but then, since the problematic floppy disks are not readable under DOS, I would need to be able to reboot the machine on the mounted disk image, which I do not think is possible because the BIOS would not know anything about the mounted disk image. So unless someone has written a BIOS extension that can mount floppy disk images, I don't think this approach is going to solve the problem.
What can I do? Is there a generic solution to this problem? Or even case-by-case solutions?
Thanks,
Christian
I know I can make disk images with Teledisk or Dave Dunfield's IMD program. (BTW, the latter is a really good program for creating disk images.) However, I still need to write the disk image to a floppy disk when I want to play the game, and eventually, floppy disks will be as rare as the dodo bird. What I would like to do is copy the game to the hard disk, and load it from there. If I could mount floppy disk images under DOS, it would be a step in the right direction, but then, since the problematic floppy disks are not readable under DOS, I would need to be able to reboot the machine on the mounted disk image, which I do not think is possible because the BIOS would not know anything about the mounted disk image. So unless someone has written a BIOS extension that can mount floppy disk images, I don't think this approach is going to solve the problem.
What can I do? Is there a generic solution to this problem? Or even case-by-case solutions?
Thanks,
Christian