[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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