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An open source sort-of CP/M 2.2 distribution.
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Gotek Floppy Emulator on Brother Super PowerNote? #67

Open rdmullins opened 3 weeks ago

rdmullins commented 3 weeks ago

Hello-

First and foremost, this is an amazing project, and thank you for creating it!

I saw the other issue regarding use of a Gotek but it's closed and for a different machine, so I started this one. In short, has anyone reported successfully running cpmish on a Brother PowerNote via a Gotek disk image? I downloaded the automatically generated build img file for the PN8800, which I'm 99.9% sure should work in my PN8700 (no clue why Brother put out so darned many different versions). I copied the image onto a blank partition on my Gotek USB drive using the WinXP version of the image management software, and when I check the folder there I have CPMISH.APL. All good. When I move to the Brother and plug in the USB drive and select the correct disk image number and go to Disk Application, I see the same thing - CPMISH.APL, 1.1 file size on the disk, almost the entire 1400K available. However when I highlight the APL file and hit enter, one of two things happens - either the machine freezes up right on that screen and nothing other than a hard reset will bring it back, or the machine quickly does a soft reset (which, credit to you, I didn't think these machines could do!) and lands back on the main menu after showing the Brother bootup splash screen.

I'd really like to test-drive CP/Mish on my Brother, and hope someone has run into this and knows a reliable way around it.

Thanks!

PS Here's a link to the 'freezing' behavior.

rdmullins commented 3 weeks ago

PPS - Here's a link to a video of the 'soft reset' behavior.

davidgiven commented 3 weeks ago

As far as I know the 8800 is not compatible with the 8700. The 8500 and 8700 are very similar, but the 8800 is different; try the 8510 image.

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PPS - Here's a link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iZB7pOsBo3Pu1SzsFoKpVWAG3cllY9-1/view?usp=drive_link to a video of the 'soft reset' behavior.

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