How Do I Wrote Img Files To Floppy For Booter Games?

[djpubba]

Yeah, I know, use DOSBox. But I don't want to run the game on modern hardware. I want to run it on an original 8086 machine. So how do I write CONGO.IMG to a floppy so I can boot it on my old Amstrad PPC640?

[dosraider]

There is plenty freeware stuff to find on Teh internet to do such things.
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/floppyimage.html
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/se...load/23330.html (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23330.html)
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I usually use the first one.

[djpubba]

Ah, cool thanks.

First one works great.

[dosraider]

You're welcome.

The first one has the advantage it can read/write compressed images also.
In the settings of the first one disable 'description' in 'settings' before read/writing a new image for max compability with other programs

The possiblities to save floppy image files for the first one are:
Uncompressed *.img -> maximum compability with other programs.
Compressed *.imz -> smaller, not compatible with all image programs.
Self-extracting *.exe -> creates a selfextracting image file, you don't need the program to write the image on a floppy.
It's an excellent program to backup your valuable game flops.

About the second one:
If you have a lot of games on floppies, and you want to backup them on CD or so, remember to store each in a own folder.
It read/write *cyl.bin format, would be a complete mess if you put all the flops in one folder.

Thought a bit explaination wouldn't be bad here, as you didn't seem to know much about floppy images.
We all had to learn once ......

[The Fifth Horseman]

WinImage does the job for me. Pretty handy at creating/modifying images too.
I made a Wibarm booter image with it, since the game works agonizingly slow if ran from a HDD - both floppies of the game plus the user data disk plus the simplest bootdisk ever all fit on a single 1,44 MB floppy and work just perfectly.

[dosraider]

WinImage, that's shareware isn't it?
Is it still fully functional after 30 days ?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Seems like it isn't 30 days since installation, but 30 days in which the program was used at least once.
I installed my copy three or four months ago, and so far it's not even on the 10th day yet. :D