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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.<br>
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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