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# The FLOPPICATOR
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## DISCLAIMER
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Any use of this project is **under your own responsibility**.
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By using this project You will agree that I cannot be held responsible if it will destroy any of your devices, damage your computer, burn down your house or whatever.
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## Introduction
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I recently [built myself a Microdigital TK2000 clone](https://github.com/hkzlab/TK2000_Build_Notes).
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This clone is almost-but-not-really Apple II compatible, and most low level software (like floppy duplicators) fail to work correctly (or at all).
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The only original TK2000 software I have available to handle copying from one floppy to another, is meant for the original TK2000 disk interface, which
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supported only a single drive. This poses a problem when I want to copy something from my FloppyEMU to a real floppy. I could setup a greaseweazle, but... sometimes I'm lazy.
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So I developed a simple copier that takes all the sector data from the disk in the primary drive and copies it to the secondary.
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Note that this supports DOS 3.3 sector structure only, and **the destination disk must be formatted beforehand**.
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### Support
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If you wish to support me in building new hardware and software for old machines, [throw a few euros in my direction via Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.com/hkzlab) ☕!
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### Current state
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It works. It will copy the content of a DOS 3.3 based disk from the primary drive to the secondary, 7 tracks at a time, and then verify what was written via CRC8.
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It's a bit slow (takes roughly 6 minutes including data verification), but You're not going to run a disk mastering business with this, right?
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## How to play
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Start with a floppy containing the FLOPPICATOR. Once you get to the initial screen, remove the FLOPPICATOR disk, put in what you want to copy, then insert the destination in the secondary drive.
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Then push a button. A track/sector grid will appear.
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Then wait.
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Once it finishes, you can repeat the procedure as many times as you want.
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### Floppy version
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Just put your floppy in the first drive and power on the TK2000. It will autoboot.
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## How to build
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You need the following:
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- GNU Make (I used the one provides by [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/))
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- [Calypsi 6502 toolchain](https://www.calypsi.cc/) (tested with 5.10)
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- [AppleCommander](https://github.com/AppleCommander/AppleCommander), "ac" command line version (tested with 1.9.0)
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- [dsk2woz](https://github.com/TomHarte/dsk2woz)
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## The future
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What future?
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