Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Some follow-up thoughts based on the FZ disk format listed at: http://www.buchty.net/casio/fz1-diskformat.html

Years ago I wrote asembly language code on a pre-Windows system that used MS-DOS interrupt services to read and pull files from non-MS-DOS disks (an Epson C/PM OS).

Based on what I remember of the project and based on what I saw at the above link, I think someone >>might<< be able to develop code to format, read, and write FZ disks on a PC. To access MS-DOS, you'd need a pre-Windows XP OS. (XP can't boot to MS-DOS. Also, either SP2 or SP3 changed things so to protect the computer.) It might be possible to do in Linux if Linux lets you have control over floppy disk read/write/format services.

With my project, I mined the format from scratch. It is especially nice that the FZ disk format has already been mined.  BTW, I noticed that credit is given to Jeff McClintock for contributing a couple of pieces to the puzzle. If that's the same person who developed Synthedit, you may want to e-mail him in case he can be of any help. 

Let us know what you find out.

--Steve 




--- In CZsynth@...m, "jdcx64" <jdcx64@...> wrote:
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> Anyone knows if it is possible to write FZ-1 disks (from the archive) with a PC?
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