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Old 9th Nov 2018, 10:53 am   #6
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Default Re: Can anyone read the old CF2 discs ?

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As I said the discs (2 off) are Amstrad, presumably the old Amstrad word processor.
As I say, I'm fine as long as they are for the word processor (PCW) as opposed to the Amstrad CPC. I seem to recall that the two used different formats.

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Dave, I don't think we have a problem with CPM filestore so long as the disc data is readable on a modern machine, so could be mounted as a raw disc on a Linux system for example.
In that case I should be able to produce an acceptable 3½" disc for you.

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Most of the difficulty these days is that Windows likes to make it hard to access hardware directly.
That was the reason for my caveat about the DOS format conversion program.
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