Philippe Cousson (
philippe.cousson1@libertysurf.fr) wrote:
: Thanks for your answer, but...
: No, what I mean is how to get files, mainly texts, from diskettes first used
: on an Atari ST, for use on a Windows PC.
: Philippe
I think the easiest would be to format a new disk on the PC, as mentioned
elsewhere, and then use the Atari to copy the files to the new disk. I
think you have to copy one file at a time because a full atari disk to
disk copy will overwrite the bits required by the PC, and the PC won't
read it after that.
However, as alternative I recall that you can read the disks on a PC
by using linux.
You can get various very small distributions of linux (i.e. 3-4 diskettes
only) that install and run "on top of" DOS/Windows using the existing dos
file system. Unzip the linux distro into a directory, run linux-start.bat
(or whatever it's called), and it boots into linux using your dos/windows
file system. Now mount the atari diskette and copy the contents into a
directory. Now reboot and you're back to dos/windows, and the atari files
will be there on your hard disk where you put them.
