[Coco] [Color Computer] Help for transfering Coco disk to PC

[John Donaldson]

  You will also find that there is a bug in the JV/JC emulator that 
prevents them from
correctly accessing the PC drives as a COCO3 drive. I found that using 
RETRIEVE.exe
converted my COCO3 disks to .DSK just find. If the COCO3 disk are 40T 
DSDD, you
will also need to change a bit at offset 010H to one less than it is for 
the emulator to
correctly see the .DSK as a 40T DSDD drive. I'll see if I still have the 
email that explains
how to do this. You use DED. Also any .DSK that you want to convert 
back, so a
real COCO3 can read them, use DSKINI.exe for that.
  Also remember that these programs along with the emulators work best 
under DOS or WIN98.

John Donaldson



David wrote:

>Hi there,
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>You'll find the problem is actually Windows XP - to access Coco disks, 
>you may need to use Dos, Windows 98 or some other pre-Windows 2000 
>operating system.
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>This is because XP doesn't support the required low-level access 
>routines required to read/write Coco floppies.
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>David
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>Sylvain De Chantal wrote:
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>>Hi Folks,
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>>I've tried to transfer Coco disks (i have about 130) to my PC (AMD 
>>Athlon, Win XP) after installing a TEAC FD-55 GFR floppy drive (a 
>>1.2meg high density) and using the Coco emulator of Jeff Vavasour 
>>(Version 1-15). I did configure the BIOS for the floppy (B: 5½ 
>>1.2MEG) and configuring the emulator to read the B: floppy, but i 
>>still can't read anything. 
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>>I've cataloged about 90 disks on my Coco and they work fine. So is 
>>there another way to transfer Coco disk to a PC ? Oh and i don't have 
>>a modem in my PC since i'm using a high-speed modem connected to the 
>>USB port. 
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>>HHhhhheeeeellllllppppppppp!!!!!!!!
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>>--- Sly DC ---
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