Creating an 8-inch floppy from 3.5-inch Teledisk image

[Richard Lynch]

on 3/23/07 1:02 PM, Glen Slick at glen.slick at gmail.com wrote:

> I finally got an 8-inch floppy drive connected to a PC and now I want
> to create an 8-inch boot floppy from a Teledisk image I found, but
> tdcheck says it's an 82 track 3.5-inch floppy image.  That's seems
> odd.
> 
> http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/os/ALTOS.ZIP
> 
> Anyone know for sure if I should be able to use Teledisk to write this
> image directly to an 8-inch floppy?  Or would I need to do something
> like write the image to a 3.5 inch floppy and then use ImageDisk to
> read that floppy and write it to the 8-inch floppy?
> 
> -Glen

I ran into this file a few years back and wasn't able to do much with it.  I
later created my own Altos floppy images using both Teledisk and Imagedisk.
I'll send them to you offlist for you to try out.
Richard Lynch