[Coco] Re: Disk to PC

[Albert Stinger]

First let me thank you for your effort to recover these all important files.
I for one think if there is to be any new interest in Color Computers
emulated or not then you'll need to have as much of the software
as you can get available and have easy access to it on the web.

If you saved the stuff as ASCII then all you need to do is: with
the wingtool open the DSK and export the files you want to
print or capture in a text file. They just need to be ASCII files
that's the only requirement. If your using windows or MS-DOS
you need to convert Mac files to MS-DOS. I use QEDITOR
from masm32 project, but I sure there are others.

That's for each DSK and every file you want to get, how
you automate that procedure? You got me, I don't know.

Albert Stinger

"Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <bathory at maltedmedia.com> 
wrote in message news:3.0.6.32.20050325091740.0097e960 at maltedmedia.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I've had the good fortune of having all my Model I disks (and perhaps soon
> my CoCo disks) transferred to DSK files.
>
> I would like to transfer the documents to PC-compatible text files --  
> BASIC
> program listings, assembler listings, articles, etc. How do I do this?
>
> Admittedly this is (for now) a Model I question, but I suspect it will be
> applicable to any obsolete format, and I have buckets of CoCo stuff on 
> disk
> and cassette (and more Model I stuff unconverted on cassette).
>
> I have the emulators, and they seem to read and run the virtual disks
> (though some poorly, as, for example, the autorepeat on Electric Pencil is
> totally out of control so I can't type single characters even with the
> shortest physical stroke). But I don't really want to emulate -- I want to
> recover the older material.
>
> The emulators I have may be too old. WinTRS80 from March 1997 doesn't even
> read the virtual disks. David Keil's emulator from August 1999 doesn't 
> read
> the files, either. Only Jeff Vavasour's one does, from February 1997, but
> it doesn't seem to have any conversion features.
>
> How can I send the output to a plain vanilla PC ASCII file? And even
> better, how can I do a *batch* conversion of BASIC programs, assembler
> listings, and articles without loading each and every one (100+ disks, two
> sides, with 5-20 files on each)?
>
> (I do not have a Model I or CoCo set up anymore. Everything is in storage,
> and shortly for sale.)
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
>
>
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