Latest version XCOPY

[Jope]

I think this is a good opportunity to learn how to make a bootable disk for the Amiga.

FixDisk itself is on Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/disk/salv/FixDisk

[Sasuke]

I have never used the lha format.
How is it managed?

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by Sasuke

I have never used the lha format.
How is it managed?

It's an archive, like zip or rar. You generally use LHA ( https://aminet.net/package/util/arc/lha to get a self-extracting version you just run from the CLI) and then once installed you can use LHA to extract .lha files. Directory Opus can help with extracting them too.

[BarryB]

I have an English Xcopy & Tools dated 9.94 with X-Copy TNG Jul 19 1994 & Cyclone v13.0

ADF in The Zone!!

[Snoopy1234]

Originally Posted by Jope

You can find an image on Turran that has x-copy 11-93 in its name. This contains the last version of classic x-copy.

http://ftp2.grandis.nu/eabsearch/sea...0&httplinks=on

Just caught up with this post. Mine must be April 93 as it doesn't have WB Format. What threw me is the docs are May 92 for many editions.


Edit: This would be the last 1.x compatible ENG edition - if the OP needs an adf I can upload it.

[redblade]

Originally Posted by sittingduck

I remember using af version of X-Copy with a different title layout than the versions on Jope's website - my version said X-COPY III at the top. This was my favorite version because after using killsys I could copy an entire floppy in one go using 1 MB of ram and a single disk drive. If I remember correctly the "regular" version would read up until the last block and then ask for target disk after which I had to change disk again and copy the last block. My version looked like this: http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=72508
Does anybody know if this was an unofficial "modded" version?

Interesting as CHIP RAM would contain a 320x200x1bp Graphics (8KB), the Mouse pointer sprite GFX, the Audio boing. Some very tight code indeed.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Sasuke

I have never used the lha format.
How is it managed?

You can also unpack LHA archives from Windows with WinRAR and 7-Zip, once unpacked you can copy the Fix-Disk executable to an ADF. FixDisk is a very old programme for A500 to repair floppies, it is not easy to use.

[Jope]

It's also for the A600, A1000, A1200, A2000, A3000, A4000, CDTV and CD32. Probably runs on the prototypes as well!

Even though it is old and from the 1.x era, it works fine under more modern OSes and fast CPUs, so there is no need to dismiss the tool based on its age alone. It actually works much nicer with a faster CPU, as the MFM decoding doesn't take as long when reading the tracks in. The Amiga low level disk format and OFS0/FFS1 structures are still the same as they always were.

Not easy to use? Better chuck it in the bin eh? Yeah, a tool that assists you in doing manual low level track recovery won't be that easy. You really do need to be willing to learn about how floppies and filesystems work.