I would like to know the format of DSK files used in disk images for the DEC PDP-11 emulators and what tools are available for manipulating them. Thanks
I’m not sure that “DSK” is a well-defined format; do you know what kind of drive it’s supposed to be for, or what emulator? Most disk images used with SIMH, with which I have the most experience, are just block-wise dumps of the physical disk into a file with essentially no metadata (think Unix dd images), at least for the disks that I have encountered. I have seen some named .dsk or .img, but they are also frequently named by drive type (.rx2, .rl01, etc.).
I think PUTR can do it. But MSDOS only.
There are also converters and extracters in SIMTOOLS on Github.
Not sure if there’s auto detection of a DSK file.
In the process of restoring a PDP-11/23, I needed a tool to manipulate disk images. I couldn’t find the existing tools and ended up coding my own. Later I found what was available and realized that my code duplicates some functions that already exist. However, the program may still be useful and is available on GitHub. It is 95% functional, and I appreciate any comments or suggestions about it.
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bin file 64bit doesn’t run on Win10. Error box says not supporting Win10.
should work, both tested with win10 ok
I first have double clicked it as I wasn’t sure what kind of exe this is.
But also running from a console, it still says
Not supported 16 Bit application.
I haven’t tested the 32 bit version. Nor the source on linux.