a.c.f. Wish List

[dszady]

A freeware alternative to WinImage.

Category: File Utilities

Requirements:
A disk utility that enables users to create disk images from floppy
disks, extract files from image files, create empty image files, write
the image files on blank floppy disks. Also supporting different
standard and non-standard image formats, including the Microsoft DMF
format.

Why needed:
No existing freeware.

 

[john stamatakis]

A freeware alternative to WinImage.

Category: File Utilities

Requirements:
A disk utility that enables users to create disk images from floppy
disks, extract files from image files, create empty image files, write
the image files on blank floppy disks. Also supporting different
standard and non-standard image formats, including the Microsoft DMF
format.

Why needed:
No existing freeware.

Emt4win Diskette tool
http://dvalot.free.fr/emtcopy.htm

From author's site:
build diskette images
write diskettes from diskette images
build ARDI self restorable images
convert existing images to ARDI self restorable images
graphical user interface version (GUI)
command line version (VIO)

 

[REMbranded]

dszady <[email protected]> wrote:

A freeware alternative to WinImage.

Category: File Utilities

Requirements:
A disk utility that enables users to create disk images from floppy
disks, extract files from image files, create empty image files, write
the image files on blank floppy disks. Also supporting different
standard and non-standard image formats, including the Microsoft DMF
format.

A partial answer:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/floppyimage.html

"Floppy Image v1.5.2 139,182 bytes.

Brief Description
-----------------

Creates image files of floppy disks and back (for backup, storage or
transfer). You can choose to save the image file compressed,
uncompressed or as a self-extracting exe file. You can also add
descriptions to your image files.

Just doubleclick the EXE file.


System Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP"

I don't think that it does other formats though.

 

[dszady]

No. Unfortunately neither program will do it.
My need is to change a .IMZ file to a self-executing extractable
particularly for a DOS-only system.
A lot of the old DOS programs were saved in the .IMZ format.
WinImage can do it. And it looks like the s****ware version of Floppy
Image can do it.
No freeware can do it that I'm aware of.
Hence, the wish.
Thanks for the help.

 

[JanC]

No. Unfortunately neither program will do it.
My need is to change a .IMZ file to a self-executing extractable
particularly for a DOS-only system.
A lot of the old DOS programs were saved in the .IMZ format.
WinImage can do it. And it looks like the s****ware version of Floppy
Image can do it.
No freeware can do it that I'm aware of.
Hence, the wish.

When I see the "Z" in the extension, aren't these just zipped .img files?
Maybe try unzipping them first?

 

[dszady]

When I see the "Z" in the extension, aren't these just zipped .img
files? Maybe try unzipping them first?

They are Image files. For example: dos622-full.zip unzips to:
622-1.IMZ, 622-2.IMZ, 622-3.IMZ. Uzip *.IMZ you get *.IMA
Now you need a utilty to turn the *.IMA to *.EXE or *.IMA to their
regular format <-- That is the b*itch. No freeware to do that.

The example dos622-full.zip HAS to go onto three floppy fisks,track by
track as if it were the original installation. Some other expanded disk
images aren't so picky. Fortran, Generic Cadd and other larger non-OS
programs are image files I have used WinImage (sh*reware) to expand.
With the original floppy images WinImage will format the disk, expand
the file - track by track and restore them to install as Micro$oft
wrote them to do.

I slumped in my chair when I first read about this conversion process.
Downloaded WinImage and it does a fantastic job - for 30 days.
In a discussion in alt.dos I was told I might have to spring a couple
of bucks for some things in DOS.
But "If it ain't free, I'm not buying it".