R96 builder for a sapphire rolacue

[tedrowjason]

I have been using a pearl 2000 for a while so all the personalities I have made are in R20. Now my boss has baught a sapphire rolacue board and told me to figure it out. does anyone know how I need to go about turning all my personalities into a R96, or is there a way to build them in this format?

[niclights]

They're pretty much identical as far as I am aware. Essentially just a different extension. Not sure if range tables work though.

[tedrowjason]

They're pretty much identical as far as I am aware. Essentially just a different extension. Not sure if range tables work though.

I am having trouble getting the board to read the floppy disk. I have tried a few differnt files and the sapphire is telling me there is no files on disk.

[niclights]

The Sapphire 96 needs floppies formatted as 720k. I suspect this might be the problem.
To format you need to cover the high density hole with tape (opposite side to write protect) and use 'format a: /t:80 /n:9' from command line for XP or 'format a: /f:720/u' for earlier Windows (this info copied from the personality library download section - can't say for Vista/W7 but probably the same as XP).

Seems only yesterday the amazing 1.44MB floppies came out....

[tedrowjason]

thanks for the help, I need to track down some differnt floppy disks

[icke_siegen]

Adidtionally, thre might be two more things:

- de-adjusted floppy drive. In that case, it reads the floppies it formatted/wrote itself, but not those written with another computer
- finally, if drive and floppies are proved okay: you must obey a certain folder structure - simply copying the r96 files to the floppy's root won't work. Best way: download one of the existent bundles, and check the folder structure (including shape.dat)

[niclights]

Actually there is no directory structure. It is the same for all floppy-based consoles. Just .r20 or r96 files dropped into the root. Life was simple, not even SG.DAT for the Sapphire 96. As with Pearls you can have an index file (.LST) which contains 'device name:filename' structure easily viewable/editable in Notepad etc. but I don't think it's essential. AFAIK the only problem is if you add a file to a disk which has an index file that has not been updated to suit.