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Datel Toolkit IV

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Datel Toolkit IV – The Ultimate Disk Toolkit (the ad claims) – cost just $14.99

1. Disk Doctor V2 – Read & Write any track & sector, Repair damaged sectors, look underneath read errors

2. Header/Gap editor – Decodes & Displays ALL header information, including off bytes and gaps.

3. Disk Look – Sort a directory, Recover lost files, Display file start & end addresses. Disassemble any file directly from disk, Edit the BAM, and more

4. File Compactor – Can compact machine programs by up to 50%

5. Fast Disk Copy – Copies an entire disk in 2 minutes or less

6. Fast File Copy – Copies files up to 6 times faster

7. Formatter – Formats a disk in 10 seconds, Or format any track or half track

8. Error Edit – Quickly find and recreate all read errors – more

Download the D64 here: Toolkit 4 (TOOLS) (DS)

 

ZoomFloppy Set Up Windows

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The ZoomFloppy is a great tool to copy floppy disk directly from a PC to a 1541 floppy drive. I use it all of the time. But installing the software or a Windows 10 or 11 computer can be super frustrating. I even forgot some of these steps after migrating to a new PC.
No mater what I tried I kept getting a error: NO PLUGIN DRIVER
This video below and a program called Zadig was the solution.

Breakers – Password

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BREAKERS by Broderbund

Breakers is a science fiction-themed interactive fiction video game published in 1986 by Synapse Software, which was then a division of Broderbund. The game was the last of Broderbund’s “Electronic Novels” series, and was not a commercial success.

During the loading you are asked to flip the disk over to side two. Then is will ask you for a PASSWORD to start the game. It’s one of those annoying manual look up things, you know, what is the 4th word on line 2 on page 5. Well here are the answers.

 

Click or download the list HERE: breakers-passwords