JJB Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 I am a Myarc noob so this has probably been done before but I couldn't find any info on creating your own HD (MFM) images. I had a crack at it and made a quick guide along the way (see attached). It uses the CHDMAN MAME tool (attached) and you will need an existing HD image to start with. The latter can be found on whtech or see the latest MDOS release. Again, there may be much better info out there; let me know and I'll update this post. Myarc Geneve 9640 - MAME MFM HD images.pdf chdman.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 chdman and imgtool's deficiencies were the reason why I created TIImageTool. You should try it. https://www.mizapf.de/en/ti99/timt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJB Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 Awesome, will try ASAP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 here is a complete 3 .hd setup for the geneve with all software MDOS & everything. https://ti99resources.wordpress.com/emulation/ goto MAME packages then Geneve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJB Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 49 minutes ago, hloberg said: here is a complete 3 .hd setup for the geneve with all software MDOS & everything. https://ti99resources.wordpress.com/emulation/ goto MAME packages then Geneve. Thanks! I started my emulation journey there and it's the reason I wanted to create my own images: sorting stuff differently, creating a clean boot HD with the latest MDOS version etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJB Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 5 hours ago, mizapf said: chdman and imgtool's deficiencies were the reason why I created TIImageTool. You should try it. https://www.mizapf.de/en/ti99/timt Wow that's a great piece of software. Super! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 42 minutes ago, JJB said: Thanks! I started my emulation journey there and it's the reason I wanted to create my own images: sorting stuff differently, creating a clean boot HD with the latest MDOS version etc. cool. note thou, I had some file weirdness happen with the Geneve if I used .HD sizes more than twice the size I'm using with my .hds. also after you create the new .HDs using TIImageTool it's easy copying files from my .HDs to yours using TIMT or from any .DSK or TIFILES. oh and I just uploaded a new set of .HDs with the latest MDOS files. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 One thing to be careful if you mix Geneve and 4A images. MDOS creates subdirectories according to the specs in the HFDC manual. The 4A does not with MDM5 or when using MDM5 in Rompage mode on the Geneve. With the Geneve, either use the MD or MKDIR command or a MDOS program such as Clint’s DM or Fred’s GDM2K. Otherwise, any directory created with MDM5 can not be deleted with the RD RMDIr command on the Geneve. MDM5 has a bug where it leaves out a recursive sector vector in the directory FDR. beery 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 BTW, directory creation in TIImageTool follows the specs of GeneveOS / Myarc HFDC, so they should be created and used without any problems on the Geneve. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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