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Rainbow 100 Disk Image Files

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m7hacke

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Does anyone know where I can download disk image files for any software for the Rainbow 100 to be used in the MAME emulator? I already have the ROMs and disk images of CP/M and MS-DOS. I just need some programs/games to run.
 
NeXT said:
I assume you have seen Rainbow 100 Files? It's the largest archive I'm aware of.

http://www.classiccmp.org/rainbow/files.html
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No, I have not heard of this site. Thank you so much. I checked it out and there is a lot of great stuff for the Rainbow 100 there, but it is not in the format I need. I need it in Rainbow 100 disk image format, which has an extension of .td0. Any idea how I can do that?
 
You may have discovered this by now, but that is most likely the teledisk format. I haven't messed with it in something like 15 years as data transfer has gotten a lot faster since the days of *.td0 files, but I did a small writeup and conversion program back then see
http://www.willsworks.net/file-format/teledisk
others have done similar things. As mentioned in that document I tend to use John Wilsons putr program which should work directly with the files in the archive you were directed to. I have a Rainbow, but its been a while since I booted it. Luck
 
willyk said:
You may have discovered this by now, but that is most likely the teledisk format. I haven't messed with it in something like 15 years as data transfer has gotten a lot faster since the days of *.td0 files, but I did a small writeup and conversion program back then see
http://www.willsworks.net/file-format/teledisk
others have done similar things. As mentioned in that document I tend to use John Wilsons putr program which should work directly with the files in the archive you were directed to. I have a Rainbow, but its been a while since I booted it. Luck
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Thank you very much.
 
m7hacke,
If you have a DOS Box you can use 22DISK to access the Files directly from Floppy.
If you don't have a DOS Box, then cpmtools, or cpmtools built with libdsk can be
used to access the files on the Image.

cpmtools & libdsk Definitions for Rainbow that I've conjured up:

#cpmtools
# DEC2 DEC Rainbow - SSDD 96 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 10
diskdef dec2
seclen 512
tracks 80
sectrk 10
blocksize 2048
maxdir 128
skew 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# libdsk data below
[dec2]
description = DEC2 DEC Rainbow - SSDD 96 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 10
cylinders = 80
heads = 1
secsize = 512
sectors = 10
secbase = 1
datarate = DD


# DEC3 DEC VT-180 - SSDD 48 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 9
diskdef dec3
seclen 512
tracks 40
sectrk 9
blocksize 1024
maxdir 64
skew 2
boottrk 2
os 2.2
end

# libdsk data below
[dec3]
description = DEC3 DEC VT-180 - SSDD 48 tpi 5.25" - 512 x 9
cylinders = 40
heads = 1
secsize = 512
sectors = 9
secbase = 1
datarate = DD

You might find some errors because not all definitions have been 100% tested.


I download all the .TD0, .IMD, and .IMG files I can find.

Then do the following from within DOSBox.

Copy TD02IMD.*, IMDU.*, IMDV.*, and IMDA.* to ~/path/to/your/files/type/td0/

From within a Linux Terminal run DOSBox.

$dosbox
$mount c ~/path/to/your/files/type/td0/
$C:

$td02imd cpmv21.td0 > cpmv21.txt

TD 1.5 5.25-96 LD MFM S-step, 1 sides 13/05/1993 15:50:26
Rainbow CP/M-86/80
V 2.1 System Disk
80 tracks, 800 sectors converted.


##Still in a Terminal.....

$imdu cpmv21.imd cpmv21.raw /B /E /D >> cpmv21.txt
$Z:
$mount -u c
$exit

IMageDisk Utility 1.18 / Mar 07 2012
IMD TD 1.5 5.25-96 LD MFM S-step, 1 sides 13/05/1993 15:50:26

Rainbow CP/M-86/80

V 2.1 System Disk

Assuming 1:1 for Binary output
0/0 250 kbps DD 10x512
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D D D D D D D D D D
1/0 D D D D D D1A D D D D
2/0 D DE5 D DE5 D DE5 DE5 D DE5 D
3/0 D D D D D D D D D D
4/0 D D D D D D D D D D
...
...
...
...
74/0 D D D D D D00 D D00 D D00
75/0 D00 D D D D D D D D D
76/0 D D D D D DE5 D D D D
77/0 D D D D D D D D D D
78/0 D D D DE5 D DE5 D D D D
79/0 DE5 D DE5 D D D D D D D
80 tracks(80/0), 800 sectors (74 Compressed)


$cpmls -f dec2 -D cpmv21.raw

Name Bytes Recs Attr update create
------------ ------ ------ ---- ----------------- -----------------
ASM .COM 8K 64 S
ASM86 .CMD 26K 205 S
BACKUP .CMD 68K 539
COPY .COM 4K 27 S
CPM .SYS 24K 185 S
DATE .CMD 10K 69
DDT .COM 6K 38 S
DDT86 .CMD 14K 109 S
DEMO .DOC 2K 1
DISKCOPY.COM 4K 27
DUMP .COM 2K 5 S
ED .CMD 10K 72 S
FORMAT .COM 4K 23
GENCMD .CMD 6K 43 S
HELP .CMD 10K 74
HELP .HLP 30K 240 S
LDCOPY .CMD 28K 223 S
LMCMD .CMD 6K 40 S
LOAD .COM 2K 14 S
MAINT .CMD 28K 222
MDRIVE .CMD 2K 12
PIP .CMD 8K 59
POLYPAT .CMD 10K 65 S
PRACTICE.TXT 2K 1
RED .CMD 2K 6
RED .OVL 22K 174 S
RED1 .OVL 8K 59 S
REDHELP .FIL 10K 70 S
SAVE .CMD 2K 6 S
STAT .CMD 10K 73
SUBMIT .CMD 4K 31
SYSCOPY .SUB 2K 6
Z80CNF .SYS 8K 55 S
33 Files occupying 382K, 4K Free.


$cpmcp -f dec2 cpmv21.raw 0:p*.txt /home/larry/IMD-118/rainbow100


practice.txt contains:

This is a test:

Today you will practice
using all of the RED commands until
you have them all mastered.


Larry
 
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NeXT said:
I assume you have seen Rainbow 100 Files? It's the largest archive I'm aware of.

http://www.classiccmp.org/rainbow/files.html
Click to expand...

Bit of a thread resurrection but did this archive move to a different address or, does anyone have a link to Rainbow software ?

Just acquired a nice Rainbow 100 :) with CP/M 86 original disk boxes, user stuff and manuals. Its going to spend a lot of its time as a replacement for my fading VT420, but I do like to amass everything I can get when I have a new machine. :)
 
Cheers

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