BERLIN@DGACHEM5.BITNET (H. Baiter) (01/30/90)
Subject: Need IBM Format Program for my ST SF314 In article <1405@ariel.unm.edu>, seattle@hydra.unm.edu (David G. Adams) writes: > Subject just about says it all. I need to format some disks in IBM format, > so they'll read on a friend's PC. I know, the simple solution is to use > his PC, but he lives 3 states over... I know TOS 1.4 has this feature > built in, but I don't have 1.4. I have an '86 model 520ST. > > Thanks in advance. > > Dave > > /|\ | seattle@hydra.unm.edu <> Dadams10@GEnie <> David G. Adams \ > < |/\ | LotE | "Modern love is automatic" - A Flock of Seagulls | > \| | Live it! | Don't bug the University 'bout nuthin' I've said. / i format my disks with the normal FORMAT command of the ST (doesn't matter which TOS version) or with the FORMAT of the PC. After I have done this, I change the first three bytes 00-02 of the bootsector to <EB 34 90> and the media byte at 21 to <F9> with a diskmonitor on the ST or on the PC. That's all that I have to do. I have got this idea from the german computer magazine "c't Zeitschrift fuer Computertechniik" of June or July 1989. I work with this method for more than six months and I never had any problems with my disks except booting them on the ST, but this is not of interest cause I use these disks normally for file transfer. Using these disks I transferred all my programs form the panarthea server or the PROG-A16 list from the PC at work to my ST at home and I never had any trouble with the programs. Subject: FIREWORK available on net ? By the way, does someone have a compilede version of the program <FIREWORKS> form the german ST COMPUTER magazine, October 1989. I typed this program into my ST and used an old version of the Megamax C compiler, but I couldn't get it to work. Can anyone send my a encoded version of the running program ? Thanks Hermann Time of message sent: 29-JAN-1990 14:10:13 MEZ Hermann Baiter Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie der TU Muenchen, Garching, West-Germany BITNET-address: BERLIN@DGACHEM5