Hi everyone,

Great entries again, congratulations to all who entered! I just have a small question about voting. Point 7.2.2 of the rules state that we can vote "via the online polling site". Can anyone provide with a link to that? I couldn't find anything relevant.

Thanks!

Yes, that's pretty much the behaviour my XF551 exhibits with those disks - starting and stopping every 1-2 seconds. I wonder why is that, perhaps it's some safeguard in the firmware that stops the motor if it encounters index pulses too soon.

Now I wonder if anyone has a working 1050 for sale .

Hello, For what it's worth: my XF551 cannot even begin to format the hard sectored disks. So for now I'll just write the downloaded images into 4 single sided disks (sadly I don't have a perforator to punch a hole for side 2 write protection to the disks). At least I learned something new :). Bye fo...

Hi DjayBee, Yes, I have already downloaded the images. I was just asking if I can write the images on the disks supplied, given how much grief they give the poor XF551 just trying to read them. I don't know much on the subject but "hard sectored disks" to me sound that the drive won't be a...

Hello guys, Thanks for the replies and sorry I didn't reply here earlier. Regarding floppies, this is exactly what Mathy described: start/stop/start/stop. For the record, I tried this on a XF551. From the sound of it, hard sectored disks can't be reformatted to work on the drive? Sad to hear 8bitjun...

Hello everyone, Last week issue #146 of Abbuc magazine arrived here. The magazine itself looks ok, but the floppy disks are a bit peculiar. For one, they don't seem to have an Abbuc label like the previous issues. Then, the disks themselves seem to not work. I can display their directory, but trying...

Hello all, Like the topic says, I have an 800XE lying around with a dead Sally (as diagnosed by Panos Santos himself) and recently I started looking around to get a replacement. So far none of the shops I've looked seem to have any. So I looked at ebay and found this listing https://www.ebay.com/itm...