British Columbia Need a Sirius/Victor boot floppy written

[NeXT]

I came into ownership of a Victor 9000 system and I'm still in the process of cleaning it up. It had what looks to be a copy of Kermit and another random floppy in the drive and I have not yet actually done testing yet to verify if these disks are any good.
Victor 9000/Sirius 1 systems are special in that they do variable speed GCR encoding on the floppy drives which as of date nobody* has been able to replicate with a disk emulator or imaging tool. You need a working system to read and write disks. I'm asking if anyone would be willing to use their system to write me one or more bootable system disks so that when it comes time to boot the system I have a known good system floppy and possibly a way to transfer files onto the machine through the serial port.

Can mail you disks to write the floppies out if you wish.

 

[djg]

which as of date nobody* has been able to replicate with a disk emulator or imaging tool.

Didn't put your * reference in. I had remembered seeing someone say they had managed to write disks when looking during the last Victor thread.
Quite possibly this link that is now dead. Site may come back since it wasn't that long ago it worked.
https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/2...ble-speed-disks-with-a-fixed-speed-12mb-drive
Did see this that says applesauce supports it. Do you know if it doesn't really work?
https://wiki.applesaucefdc.com/doku.php?id=platforms:sirius_v9k

Don't have required stuff to actually test. Getting a disk is easier.

 

[Al Kossow]

Victor 9000/Sirius 1 systems are special in that they do variable speed GCR encoding on the floppy drives which as of date nobody* has been able to replicate with a disk emulator or imaging tool.

Two different projects have imaged Victor disks on fixed-speed drives
Copies are available on ebay contact https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=intergalacticmicrosystems

https://archive.org/details/victor-games-and-graphics-v-1.0

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

 

[NeXT]

Huh that's indeed new to me, mind you the last time I was looking was years ago. Back during VCF West someone had two large boxes of Sirius software in consignment and I was kicking myself for not grabbing it, even though I didn't yet have a system.

Didn't put your * reference in.

*That I am aware of

 

[pdevine]

Huh that's indeed new to me, mind you the last time I was looking was years ago. Back during VCF West someone had two large boxes of Sirius software in consignment and I was kicking myself for not grabbing it, even though I didn't yet have a system.

*That I am aware of

Hi @NeXT,
As folks have mentioned, to write disks you can use either an Applesauce or Fluxengine. These options are both new in the past two years. The Fluxengine approach either works with the fluxengine hardware or a greaseweazle. I was the source of the Sirius software at this past VCF west. I've been uploading everything I come across to the internet archive at the link @Al Kossow pointed out above. If you have any trouble, feel free to reach out. I've helped a number of folks get their machines going in the past year.

 

[westveld]

Two different projects have imaged Victor disks on fixed-speed drives
Copies are available on ebay contact https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=intergalacticmicrosystems

That's me. @NeXT, I'll PM you

 

[NeXT]

I do have the parts to build a fluxengine available. I bought the appropriate board a few years ago when it was still a very primitive but never assembled anything because at that point there was not a lot of interest and didn't support many formats. I guess I can use this chance to assemble it.

That's me. @NeXT, I'll PM you

I'm slacking at work right now, but I'll reply when I can get home tonight.

 

[NeXT]

All good now. Thank you!

 

[pdevine]

Glad you got it working @NeXT!