Help wanted in creating 720K floppies

[pe1goo]

Hello.
I'm looking for someone in the Netherlands who can help me in creating 720K floppies for my Atari 260ST.
I've a lot of st images but no computer with a working 720K floppy-drive. The USB floppy-drives from nowadays can only be used for HD 1,4MB diskettes unfortunately. My Atari works but without software it isn't that useful.

[Steve]

Just get a Gotek, and maybe an SD card hard disk solution.

[JezC]

Hi there are one or two brands of USB floppy drives that do support both 720k and 1.44Meg floppies (but only for standard formats, not protected games etc).

I have at least one of those so I will try to dig out the part number later.

There is one in the exxos store but shipping to you may be problematic

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0266

[rubber_jonnie]

Just get a Gotek, and maybe an SD card hard disk solution.

+1 for a Gotek and an SD card solution. My preferred SD solution is the Ultrasatan, but there are lots around that are less expensive, such as ACSI2SD, SD4ST, BBAN & GigaFile.

[atari030]

Some of the modern USB drives can't support 720k format from the GUI but they will format 720k via CLI. Always worth a try too.

[sandord]

Just get a Gotek, and maybe an SD card hard disk solution.

Is there a program on the ST that writes an .ST disk image from a hard drive to a floppy disk? In case you have a program or game that can only be run by booting from a floppy disk.

Of course, if you have a Gotek, that won't be needed anymore.

[Steve]

@sandord yes, Hatari. It writes directly to .st disk images. It's how I get all my stuff on to my Gotek.

[sandord]

@sandord yes, Hatari. It writes directly to .st disk images. It's how I get all my stuff on to my Gotek.

I get what you mean but I meant writing to an actual physical floppy disk on a real ST.

[DoG]

TRACC (TrackCopy). It seems to be handling MSA and ST files to disk. Find it hidden here: https://atari.8bitchip.info/floimgd.php

[sandord]

TRACC (TrackCopy). It seems to be handling MSA and ST files to disk. Find it hidden here: https://atari.8bitchip.info/floimgd.php

Perfect! OP might use this if he wants a solution that doesn't require opening their machine. Although an external Gotek also would be a good solution.