Haemogoblin
Experienced Member
I recently bought a boxed copy of Wordstar but the 3.5" floppies are dead. I was wondering if anyone might have a copy of this version of Wordstar.
Thanks
James
Thanks
James
I recently bought a boxed copy of Wordstar but the 3.5" floppies are dead. I was wondering if anyone might have a copy of this version of Wordstar.
Thanks
James
When floppies are ~ 30 years old I would never be surprised if they failed to work properly whether they were boxed or not. It's just the nature of the beast.
Same here, but climate and distance to seawater are a factor.Agent Orange said:...got some 3.5 floppy's that have been laying around in open shoe boxes since the 80's and still work...
It's pretty easy to find 3.3 and 4.0, but 3.4 seems to be rather uncommon.
He said 3.3 or earlier, not 3.0 specifically.Hi there thanks for the suggestion, that does however raise the question of how i create a dos 3.0 partition, i dont have a copy of dos 3.0.
He said 3.3 or earlier, not 3.0 specifically.
If you want an image of DOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3 I can help you out.
That would certainly be one of the last things I would try.Make a virtual partition and then format it using a DOS 3.x floppy, would be my first thought.
Why not try the easy way first? Then, if you get lucky and happen to be somewhat successful, you can move on to more difficult, less-likely-to-succeed-the-first-time adventures.
Try installing DOS on one of your earlier machines. It doesn't require any finesse and you can then test the questionable disks quite readily. It just doesn't make any sense to go the more difficult route if you might discover the disks are bad to begin with.