Working with Fujinet disks from BASIC.

[kensu]

I just got a Fujinet and can't figure out to load or save basic programs to the emulated disk drive. 

Here is what I tried:

1. Created a new disk image in FujiNet, it was the third-smallest type, like 100K or something like that.

2. I mounted the disk to slot 1.

3. I hit the Option key to boot the machine.

Instead of going to BASIC I get a garbled screen. Figuring that it's trying to read from an empty disc, I switched the FujiNet off, restarted the computer and switched FujiNet back on when basic started. I tried to save it using a filename with both D: and D1: but nothing happened.

I've searched this forum and the internet in general, but the only thing I've found close to this involves the N: device, and that is much more complicated than what I need. I don't want to open a socket up to another machine, I just want to be able to read and write to the emulated disk drive from BASIC.

 

I also just bought an Action! cart on eBay, I assume I'm going to run into a similar problem?

(For that matter, is there a FujiNet manual somewhere? I found nothing like that on the Brewing Academy website.)

[tschak909]

Blank disks are just that, blank disks. There's no filesystem on them, and due to the wide variety of DOSes, there is no point in pre-populating images with a filesystem.

 

So what you need to do is boot a DOS in D1, there are plenty in the DOS/ folder on atari-apps.irata.online. Put the blank disk in D2: make sure it's mounted WRITE.

 

Then, OPTION to boot.

 

Once booted, if you're in BASIC, you can either:

 

READY

XIO 254,#1,0,0,"D2:"

 

to format the disk in BASIC, OR, you can do it from the DOS utility package, by typing

 

READY

DOS

 

and doing it there.

 

Once formatted, you can use the disk.

 

-Thom