Northstar Advantage hard sector floppies ?

[zippysticks]

Hi - anyone have a set of hard sector floppies - CP/M and the demonstration disks they can sell me please ?

Specifically I'm looking for :

Advantage Demonstration/Diagnostic Diskette rev. 2.2.0
North Star ADVANTAGE CP/M 2.2 rev. A / Mbasic /Obasic

And any of these archived images:
https://itelsoft.com.au/advantage_disk_archive/holger_disk_archive.html

Note I need disks rather than image files as I have no other way of writing the hard sector floppies.

Thanks

 

[ldkraemer]

zippysticks,
I had just posted a question to David about trying to write some *.NSI images with the latest Fluxengine.
His reply was:
https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/283

It might be worth a try if you have the Hard Sector Floppy's available, as it doesn't take long to create a Fluxengine.
just be sure to specify the northstar350.textpb profile.

./fluxengine write northstar350 -i northstar-image.nsi -d drive:1

Larry

 

[zippysticks]

Thanks Larry - Thats one option to try. Have you tried it yourself yet ?

 

[zippysticks]

Just came across this YouTube video - exactly what I need so have emailed the creator.
It's some code to read/write disk images to the Advantage from its serial port attached to a remote machine.

https://youtu.be/0TRYurKI7Ug

 

[deramp5113]

Do you have a computer with the North Star double density S-100 controller? If so, I can help you write the Advantage disks using that computer. If not, I’ve done this for other hobbyists in the past and can write the Advantage disks for you if you want.

 

[zippysticks]

Thanks Mike. I'll have to check what FDC is in my Horizon - I did wonder whether I could go that route.

I now have the code to communicate via the Advantage serial port from a PC and read/write images so will give that a whirl at the weekend.