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The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a "dos" called "flopy2", on the utility disk.<br>
The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a dos called "FLOPPY", on the utility disk. This is a different version than what's on the TPDD1 Utility Disk.<br>
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.<br>
 
You can't make a copy of the disk from a download, nor with a normal floppy drive, not even and old 720K drive, even though the TPDD uses normal 720K (NOT 1.44M!) 3.5" disks.
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.
You need the original utility disk, or a physical copy that was made in a real TPDD drive using the backup utility from the utility disk.<br>
 
Some copies are for sale here:<br>
There are a few ways to get a copy of the TPDD2 Utility Disk:
https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD2-disk-26-3814/p/141211028/category=28313042
 
* You can buy one from [https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD2-disk-26-3814/p/141211028/category=28313042 ArcadeShopper]
 
* You can create one using a TPDD2 drive and [https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh pdd.sh]
 
* You can create one using a TPDD2 drive, [[TPDD_client:PDD210|PDD210]], and this disk image: [[File:26-3814.ZIP]]
wget https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS/PDD210.ZIP
unzip PDD210.ZIP
wget http://tandy.wiki/images/1/16/26-3814.ZIP
unzip 26-3814.ZIP
dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" .
C:>pdd /FORMAT
C:>pdd /WRITE 26-3814.PDD
 
And here is the source for the labels used on the ArcadeShopper disks if you want to print more of those for your own backup disks:<br>
https://github.com/bkw777/disk_labels
 
The glabel files include links to the exact matching label stock to print that label on.

Latest revision as of 22:58, 16 September 2021

The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a dos called "FLOPPY", on the utility disk. This is a different version than what's on the TPDD1 Utility Disk.

The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.

There are a few ways to get a copy of the TPDD2 Utility Disk:

  • You can create one using a TPDD2 drive and pdd.sh
wget https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS/PDD210.ZIP
unzip PDD210.ZIP
wget http://tandy.wiki/images/1/16/26-3814.ZIP
unzip 26-3814.ZIP
dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" .
C:>pdd /FORMAT
C:>pdd /WRITE 26-3814.PDD

And here is the source for the labels used on the ArcadeShopper disks if you want to print more of those for your own backup disks:
https://github.com/bkw777/disk_labels

The glabel files include links to the exact matching label stock to print that label on.

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