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by rmay635703
2014-04-07T16:12:55-07:00
Forum: Consulting
Topic: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary floppy
Replies: 6
Views: 20875

Re: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary flop

been sitting on this a while, not sure it could dump a floppy with no file system though

#include <iostream>

#include <fstream>



int main ()

{

const size_t OFFSET = 0x2400;

const std::streamsize IMGSIZE = 720 * 1024 - OFFSET;



const char header [] =

{

0xDE, 0xAD, 0xC0, 0xDE, 0xDE ...
by rmay635703
2014-04-07T16:04:55-07:00
Forum: Consulting
Topic: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary floppy
Replies: 6
Views: 20875

Re: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary flop

Right now I am dumping the disk using an antique program called herne data systems maxidisk.

In the past I have used other imaging programs, not sure what the best one is to dump it clean in original format.

This program basically images the whole floppy to a file, I then use a random hex editor ...
by rmay635703
2014-04-07T15:50:39-07:00
Forum: Consulting
Topic: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary floppy
Replies: 6
Views: 20875

Re: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary flop

Cheaper to do manually but I will probably do several hundred images.
It literally should only take 15 minutes for the right person to make a program to dump the disk, I found the image location by looking at the disk in HEX, I dumped it to a file, changed the extension and deleted the useless bits ...
by rmay635703
2014-04-07T15:38:53-07:00
Forum: Consulting
Topic: Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary floppy
Replies: 6
Views: 20875

Need 16 bit targa images extracted from proprietary floppy

I have an antique QLT Futura Computer Portrait system (innovion PGSIII) this was used for early animations and also by people like me for photography in ages long gone.

I would like a simple utility that downloads the targa image file off the proprietary 720k IDos III disk from the Futura.

I am ...