MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: DEC Rainbow 100

> > Thank you. I don't have access to a PC with a floppy drive. I will look into your
> > other suggestions.
>
> You don't have a PC with a floppy drive but you can emulate a PC in MAME with a
> floppy drive.
>
> The point is theoretically you could load the files to an emulated IBM PC machine and
> then copy them to a formatted RX50 floppy image using the DOS driver.
>
> My experience doing that kind of things vary though. I can't simply create a floppy
> disk image with IsoBuster then expect it to be read by MAME right away, I ended up
> with read/write errors. I would have to create a blank disk into MAME, format it with
> DOS into MAME and then use the resulting blank disk image to inject external files
> using IsoBuster.
>
> I would try creating a formatted blank disk on Rainbow 100 and then use that blank
> disk image to copy external files on an emulated IBM PC environment. You could also
> start by trying to read a softlist .TD0 disk on an ibm5170 machine with the DOS RX50
> driver.

So just to be clear what you are saying. You want me to create a virtual formatted blank disk using MAME (Rainbow 100)? The way I would do this is to boot the emulated Rainbow 100 by using either MS-DOS or CP/M (depending on what kind of formatted disk I want). Then I would assume I would use the command FORMAT B:. I'm not sure if that will work because there would not be anything mounted to drive B:. I will try this first step after work today.

Whether I make any progress or not, I really appreciate your help.