[Coco] catweasel questions
Ken Carlin
carlin at nauticom.net
Sun Apr 24 17:07:57 EDT 2005
I remember a couple of weeks back that a few of us said we had a Catweasel
disk controller. In my case, I have a Catweasel MK4.
I finally got around to hooking it up in an older PC of mine that uses a
360K 5 1/4" floppy as the second drive. I'm also using the utilities found
on Tim Mann's web site (http://www.tim-mann.org/catweasel.html). For
ordinary 35 track CoCo disks, this works fantistically well. I can read in
disks and create .dmk files very quickly and reliably. However...
Diecom disks (specifically Gantelet II) are giving me fits. I am ever so
close to being able to read in the entire disk at once and create a usable
dmk file, were it not for track 0 and its weird format. In following Tim
Linder's excellent discussion (http://home.netcom.com/~tlindner/CDC.html )
on the Diecom copy protection scheme, I understand why I'm having problems.
I lack the proper command to actually get that particular track to read in
properly. The command I'm using is:
cw2dmk -d0 -k2 -m1 -t35 -s1 -e2 gant2-1.dmk
As I mentioned, it *almost* works. Has anybody else taken a whack at
getting Diecom disks to read in properly with a Catweasel? I'm convinced
the solution lies in the -h, -g, and -i switches in cw2dmk.
--Ken
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