Anyone know of a utility that will successfully copy (binary) files to a Beautiful Boot (BB) disk? I know I can format a disk and put my binaries on there, then “beautify” it with the BB utility, but what if I want to copy a new file on there? The docs say “Beautiful Boot resides on track 0, the disk’s VTOC is updated to free tracks 1, 2, and most of track 17 for more space.”
When I try to copy files using programs like FID, copy II+ etc, it either doesn’t recognize the disk as DOS (which technically it isn't) or crashes, or says “disk full” which is understandable as BB modifies the disk. Is there a “Beautiful Boot Disk" compatible file copy utility? Thx.
p.s. I also tried Back It Up, Flashcopy, Organizer, Bit Copy, Nibbles Away II, The Scanner 1.5, Diskfixer, Super Disk Copy III, and a bunch of others from asimov. Any others I should try?
https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/disk_utils/Beautiful%20Boot%20-%20buffer%20overflow%20fixed.dsk
Thanks, I see you shared a link to the BB utility. I was hoping someone knew of a utility to copy files to an existing BB disk.
I remember making my own BB disk by copying an entire BB disk, then delete the previous warez and copy my programs over.
BB disks actually are standard DOS 3.3 disks.
Someone create a Beautiful Boot Initor program long time ago.
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