Deoxys357 wrote:I was wondering if anyone knows how to access the other 2 floppy drives ("Extra Floppy" and "Altair DOS") from CP/M. When I type "b:" I get a bad sector.
Those disks are for use with Altair-written software only they aren't in a format that CP/M can read. The Altair DOS disk must be the boot disk if used. You can then create blank disks in Altair format.
Which disk are you calling Extra Floppy? I don't see one in the list of disks that come with the 8800 emulator:
00001) DISK01.DSK: CP/M (63k)
00010) DISK02.DSK: ALTAIR DOS 1.0
00011) DISK03.DSK: ALTAIR Disk Basic
00100) DISK04.DSK: ALTAIR Disk Basic programs
00101) DISK05.DSK: Games (CP/M programs)
00110) DISK06.DSK: SuperCalc II (CP/M program)
00111) DISK07.DSK: WordStar (CP/M program)
01000) DISK08.DSK: Zork (CP/M game)
01001) DISK09.DSK: Time Sharing Basic V1.1
01010) DISK0A.DSK: Time Sharing Basic V2
01011) DISK0B.DSK: Time Sharing Basic V2 programs
01100) DISK0C.DSK: Altair Mini-Disk Basic
01101) DISK0D.DSK: Altair Mini-Disk Basic programs
01110) DISK0E.DSK: Altair Mini-Disk DOS
01111) DISK0F.DSK: Altair Mini-Disk DOS programs
10000) DISK10.DSK: Dazzler programs (boots CP/M)
10001) DISK11.DSK: VDM-1 programs (boots CP/M)
10010) DISK12.DSK: IMP modem executive (CP/M)
10011) DISK13.DSK: CP/M 3.0 disk 1 (boot)
10100) DISK14.DSK: CP/M 3.0 disk 2 (utilities)
10101) DISK15.DSK: Felix animation system for Dazzler
10110) DISK16.DSK: CP/M 2.2 MITS+Tarbell