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How do I use disks with fMSX?

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How do I use disks with fMSX?

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fMSX includes disk support starting with version 0.9. If you have an earlier version, you cannot use disks. The following instructions assume that you have a version supporting disks. First, make sure that the DISK.ROM file containing MSX DiskROM is in the current directory. Then, use an MSDOS program called DCOPY.EXE to create disk images of your MSX disks: DCOPY : .DSK These images are just raw files with all disk blocks written in a sequence. They can also be created on a Unix machine with cp /dev/rfd0 .DSK or a similar command. If you have a 1.44MB HD floppy formatted on MSX for 720kB, don’t forget to stick a piece of tape on the HD/DD indicator hole. After you have created disk image files, run fMSX in the following way: fmsx -diska .DSK -diskb .DSK where two image filenames will become your drives A: and B:. You can also have default disk images called DRIVEA.DSK and DRIVEB.DSK and located in the current directory. • Is there an ea