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Is there an easier way to work with disk images?

April 26, 2017disk easier images

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Is there an easier way to work with disk images?

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In fact, there is. Look at two programs that come with fMSX, called wrdsk and rddsk. The wrdsk program allows you to create a disk image and add files to it: wrdsk .DSK … The rddsk program will read files from a given disk image: rddsk .DSK [-d

] [ …] • I can’t get some BASIC programs to work with the emulator. Many MSX programs have BASIC loaders written for machines not quite compatible with each other. Other loaders expect the machine to have only one floppy disk drive and use the memory dedicated to the second drive. To make such programs work, perform two “magic passes” on fMSX before running a loader: • When booting MSX, press [CTRL]+[DEL] keys to switch off the second disk drive. • Before running a program, type POKE &hFFFF,&hAA to set MSX memory manager into the mode expected by most loaders. • I can’t get some ROM images to work with the emulator. If the ROM image is bigger than 32kB, try using -rom parameter with dif