New Disk Images

[Lamont McCloud]

Good evening all

I have a quick question, please...

After making a new disk image with altair_tools, is there something else that needs to be done to make it R/W accessible?

[Lamont McCloud]

I finally figured out that you need to use PIP to initialize the disk image before it can be utilized. 🤦‍♂️

[Walt Perko]

Hi, 

Neat, can you post a list of steps how to do initialize a disk image?  

I wonder if this could work on .DSK files too, to turn a basic .DSK into a BOOTable CP/M .DSK disk?  

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[Richard Deane]

Please explain what you do with PIP to "initialise" a disk. Your comment doesn't make sense to me since I thought Pip only worked in the userspace of the disk, and doesn't fill the directory with hex E5 which CLRDIR and other utilities can do.

Richard.

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[Lamont McCloud]

Page 124 of the Altair 8800 BASIC Manual...

https://adwaterandstir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/altairbasic77.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoq4zYYfk7uGqFHZYe0VeG1H3MIyGKIndFEElTckVFMqAJyMnbCc

[John Galt]

This is a utility called PIP that came with Basic but is not related to CP/M, it just happens both were named PIP.

[Walt Perko]

Hi, 

Ahhhh ... some of the plague of the 70s ... Same Name Different Tasks ... 

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