How To prepare a floppy disk (C:) with RomWBW - sgersing73/RC2014 GitHub Wiki

... formatting ... For this purpose use FDU.COM, change the settings to 8" drive, and then format.

The 8 inch floppy format is as follows: 77 tracks, 2 sides, 15 sectors per track, and 512 bytes per sector. The drive rotates with 360 rpm like a 5.25" HD drive. This is not a true 8" format, but simply the 5.25" 1.2MB HD format but only with 77 tracks! But I don't want to complain.

The various floppy formats are actually just the transfer of the known DOS parameters to CP/M. Furthermore, RomWBW uses only MFM and not FM, i.e. it always works with 512 bytes per sector.

... clear/prepare the directory ... clrdir c: Confirm with capital „Y“ NOT „y“. Took me a while to figure it out!

Note: CLRDIR is not actually necessary for floppy disks, as this is done automatically in the process of formatting! ... make the floppy bootable ... syscopy c:=cpm.sys (or zsys.sys) Do NOT use SYSGEN like you are used to on real CP/M machines. Wayne Warten told me: "SYSGEN is kind of brain-dead."

... work with the floppy ... Do whatever you want: PIP, boot, ...