[Coco] Re: CoCo disks and XP

[farna at att.net]

Can you make a DSK file on the HD using a virtual floppy then copy that to a USB drive later? Then someone will need to write a program that will read/write a DECB or OS-9 file to/from the Windows USB floppy. That's been done for DOS, shouldn't be to difficult for one of you programmer types -- or get the DOS program and run in a window? The only problem I see with that is the NTFS file system.

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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:38:34 -0400
> From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo disks and XP
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Rumor has it that Boisy G. Pitre may have mentioned these words:
> 
> >I don't have a Windows system here to try it out on.
> 
> I just popped it onto my Win2K system at work, and it does have some 
> limitations:
> 
> It seems not to recognize any USB floppy drives - so it is tied to a 
> physical floppy port. As I don't have an internal floppy drive in my work 
> machine, and my laptop's internal floppy is actually USB based, that does 
> rather limit the usability somewhat.
> 
> I'll put it on my Win2K computer when I get home (which has a standard 
> floppy drive) and see how it works there; but I have a long day ahead of me...
> 
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>