About
Disktools, "DISKTOOLS V4.01 (C) 1989 M.PUGH G4VPD", is a set of disc utilities by Mike Pugh. Side 1 boots to a menu worked with an Emsoft mouse, a joystick or the keyboard. Side 2 boots his own DOS 1.5, "(A:FLOPPY, B:FLOPPY, D:V-RAM) 176K VRAM-DISC (C) 1989/90 Mike Pugh".
What Is on the Disc
| Program | What It Does |
|---|---|
FORMAT+.COM | "CP/M formatter modified by G4VPD 1989": formats discs to 40, 41 or 42 tracks, or 80 tracks with an external single sided 80 track drive |
41TRACK.DOS, 42TRACK.DOS, 80TRACK.DOS | XtalDOS 1.31 modified for those formats. The instructions show how to write one to a disc's system tracks: 41 tracks give 194K a side, 42 give 202K |
BACKUP41.COM, BACKUP42.COM | "41 Trk BACKUP by M.Pugh G4VPD (C)1989" and the 42 track version |
KOPYCAT.COM, KOPYCAT+.COM | Disc copiers |
Side 1: RUNTIME.COM, MENU.OVL and the tool overlays | The mouse, joystick and keyboard menu |
Files in the Zip
DISKTOOLS-SIDE1.DSK and DISKTOOLS-SIDE2.DSK, the two sides of the disc, with INSTRUCTIONS.TXT, the instructions that came with the images, and a README.
About This Image
From a CD of Einstein disc images sent to TatungBytes by a reader in November 2026, with thanks.
Copyright
Mike Pugh, G4VPD. Published here with his permission.
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