Thanks Guesser, the image you link to works perfectly.
Fuse - How to get disks working properly
Re: Fuse - How to get disks working properly
Thanks for the detailed report. I think your prolific post has spotted two bugs.Nomad wrote: ↑Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:05 pm I check disk, its double sided 40 sector.
It is a +3 system
I click insert new
I then go to +3 basic
i type FORMAT "a:"
get the ok
CAT gives me the following screen
Everything seems peachy...
I flip disk
try and use FORMAT "a:"
but disaster
I get the second screen
I flip the disk back.
hit save as
save the disk as fred.dsk
I eject the disk
when I insert the disk I get the following messageFailed to open disk image:Cannot open disk image
The steps for formatting side B are correct. When inserting a new disk, tracks 0 and 2 are preformatted to allow format routines at Spectrum ROM to succeed. Currently this isn't being done on side B. I've filled bug #416 at SourceForge.
Fuse fails to save DSK images with unformatted tracks. Right now, I'm not sure if that is a limitation of the file format or a bug in the saving routine. You can save unformatted tracks using the more powerful UDI file format. I've filled bug #415 at SourceForge.I then thought 'well perhaps I needed to save the image right after I format the disk...
Tried again.. but got the same error even before the flip, after I saved, I ejected the disk. Inserted the disk but got the same Failed to open disk image error...
I then thought ... well perhaps you need to save the image before formatting...
same error occurs...
Re: Fuse - How to get disks working properly
Could you provide more details to reproduce a disk with both sides being "side 0"? I can't see that.
Re: Fuse - How to get disks working properly
I created a single sided disk image, made a copy of it, gave them appropriate names with side A and side B, then merge loaded and saved. The resulting image is the one I linked.
Spin Disk Image Manager indicates that tracks on side 1 of the disk are "side 0" and tracks on side 2 are also "side 0".
(with a proper double sided formatted disk the tracks on side 1 are "side 0" and the tracks on side 2 are "side 1")