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My Windows Commander 3.03 floppy disk

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My Windows Commander 3.03 floppy disk

After 16 years I thought it was time to create a backup of my precious Windows Commander 3.03 floppy disk :-) Thanks Christian for the good quality BASF disk you sent me in 1997. It still works OK :-) The accompanying letter and Quick Reference sheet are still of good quality too. They survived very well in the bubble envelope. After scanning it all, I have now said goodbye to the envelope. I am not ready yet to let go of the rest ;-)

To create an exact binary copy of the floppy disk proved harder than I thought. I wasn't very impressed by the few program I found on internet. So I ended up using good old 'debug' to create an image of the disk. Then I had some fun creating a batch file for making backups of floppy disks (and restoring them). Perhaps someone would like to use it to play with their Windows Commander floppy disk :-) So I will include it below. It requires Windows XP 32bits though or perhaps a later 32 bits Windows version that still includes DEBUG.EXE, FORMAT.COM and FC.EXE.

So I have finally created a backup of my floppy disk. If you want to see it, you can find it here. Of course I used Total Commander's split and combine function to cut out the 2 sectors containing the contents of WINCMD.KEY and replaced it with something else :-)

Of course I also examined the floppy disk image with Total Commander's hex viewer. Looking at the root directory entries I saw the following files:

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WINCMD303 (volume label)
README.TXT          1.413 bytes
LIESMICH.TXT        1.787 bytes
INSTALL.INF         2.988 bytes
INSTALL.EXE        74.054 bytes
WCMD303.ZIP     1.341.804 bytes
<deleted file>     33.568 bytes
WINCMD.KEY          1.024 bytes
Looking at the contents of the sectors I learned that the deleted file consisted of numerous lines with spaces. So it seems the disk was created as follows.
- first Windows Commander 3.03 was copied to the disk
- then a file was copied to the disk filling up the remaining space except for 2 sectors (1024 bytes)
- then WINCMD.KEY was copied to the disk
- and finally the file to wipe clean the unused space was deleted.

Perhaps a batch file was used? ;-)

The deleted file of 33568 bytes used up 66 sectors = 33792 bytes of disk space. But because the file size was 33568 and not 33792, 224 bytes were filled with garbage from the file buffer. That's why the last 224 bytes of the floppy disk image seem to contain garbage. Shame on you Mr. Ghisler! :-)

I hope you enjoyed reading about my Windows Commander 3.03 floppy disk. I am curious about what happened to other people's Windows Commander floppy disks, so don't hesitate to respond.

Best regards,
White


Above mentioned batch file:

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bmQNCg==
To decode this file
- select and copy code above
- in Total Commander press Shift+F4 and enter a file name with extension ".b64"
- paste the code and save the file
- double click the file

Hold down the Shift key if you run Flopsave.cmd from within Total Commander. Otherwise the window will close before you can read what is shown on screen.
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Mine came on cassette. Or did I type it, line by line, from Compute!

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I've never got a floppy. :oops:
I got an email only and and I paid my Windows Commander by cash. :twisted:
That was the god old golden era. :mrgreen:
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Nice to see another veteran ;)
BTW: My first TC was 2.02
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sqa_wizard wrote:Nice to see another veteran ;)
Hi! ;-)
sqa_wizard wrote:BTW: My first TC was 2.02
Did you receive a floppy disk? And do you still have it?
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Did you receive a floppy disk? And do you still have it?
Sure, this is my file list

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DESC     SDI                 36 20.01.1996  02:02
FILE_ID  DIZ                286 20.01.1996  02:02
INSTALL  BIN            364.611 20.01.1996  02:02
INSTALL  EXE             63.854 20.01.1996  02:02
INSTALL  INF              2.665 20.01.1996  02:02
INSTALLD BIN            106.940 20.01.1996  02:02
INSTALLE BIN             98.233 20.01.1996  02:02
LIESMICH TXT              3.285 20.01.1996  02:02
README   TXT              2.342 20.01.1996  02:02
WCMD202  ZIP            606.125 20.01.1996  02:02
WINCMD   KEY                128 27.01.1996  22:42
Note: the WINCMD.KEY has 128 byte ! ... no fake
This was the old format, which changed later.
The new key had been sent to each user individually.
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I still have my original 1.30e disk from 1994: http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/wc130e.png
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No official floppy disk here unfortunately. Even though I have been using Windows Commander since 1997 I only purchased it in 2005. And the dutch reseller only delivered the key by e-mail and a download link to www.ghisler.com/download.htm
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Henrie wrote:.. And the dutch reseller only delivered the key by e-mail and a download link to www.ghisler.com/download.htm
I also bought the license using the Dutch reseller, but received a floppy disk from Ghisler & Co from Switzerland. I think that at that time it wasn't possible to order license only.
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So it is my bad for being such a cheapass and waiting so long before buying.
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Henrie wrote:So it is my bad for being such a cheapass and waiting so long before buying.
You can order a CD-ROM now. Hint, hint :P
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I have not floppy diskette reader till a long time ago.
But I keep the diskette as a treasure... :-)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24594498/TotalC%20Diskette.jpg

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I would recommend that you put some black rectangle where the licence number is, otherwise you risk that someone claims to have bought the licence from you, and requests a key for himself.
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Interesting. I didn't know that diskettes contained unified installer for both 32- and 16-bit versions…
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ghisler(Author) wrote:I would recommend that you put some black rectangle where the licence number is, otherwise you risk that someone claims to have bought the licence from you, and requests a key for himself.
Too late... :oops:
But you can be sure that I am not going to sell my license!! :D

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