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Re: How should I archive old
By: Cougar428 to NELGIN on Sat Jun 21 2025 09:23 am

I've got a lot of floppies that have drivers and software for
old hardware. I'm trying to decide what's the best way to
archive them for others to use.

If you are running a Win platform, you can try winimage. It will compress
the entire floppy into an .img file. Later you can use the application to
uncompress back to a floppy or to some other location.

I used a DOS program to make images a while back, I can't remember
what it was called but it used it own format.

I would STRONGLY recommend to use a format that is cross platform, and
not tied to some specific piece of software to read.

Hi Bo - Yeah, I can see your point. However, the .img format can be
re-written using software on multiple platforms. IBM, *nix, Mac etc. Since
I use Windows currently, I mentioned that specific software. I realize
people trying to help sometimes cause unintended problems. However, my
intentions were good as that is the way that I do it.

Check out this video from Adam's Digital Basement on YT:

https://rb.gy/f31lkk

It's an informative presentation on the archiving/unarchiving process.

Cheers!
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Re: How should I archive old
By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on Wed Jun 25 2025 10:21 am

Quoting Boraxman to Cougar428 <=-

Re: How should I archive old
By: Cougar428 to NELGIN on Sat Jun 21 2025 09:23 am

I've got a lot of floppies that have drivers and software for
old hardware. I'm trying to decide what's the best way to
archive them for others to use.

If you are running a Win platform, you can try winimage. It will compres
the entire floppy into an .img file. Later you can use the application t
uncompress back to a floppy or to some other location.

I used a DOS program to make images a while back, I can't remember
what it was called but it used it own format.

I would STRONGLY recommend to use a format that is cross platform, and not tied to some specific piece of software to read.

Hi Bo - Yeah, I can see your point. However, the .img format can be
re-written using software on multiple platforms. IBM, *nix, Mac etc. Since
I use Windows currently, I mentioned that specific software. I realize
people trying to help sometimes cause unintended problems. However, my
intentions were good as that is the way that I do it.

Check out this video from Adam's Digital Basement on YT:

https://rb.gy/f31lkk

It's an informative presentation on the archiving/unarchiving process.

Cheers!
... On the other hand, you have different fingers.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

The IMG format is, I believe, just a raw dump of the data. It is cross platform because it doesn't require any proprietary translation.

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