[Coco] Advice on copying old floppies

[Carey Eugene]

Robert;

> You haven't said what OS is running on your PC and that is important. 
> Most of the PC programs that can read Coco Disk Basic or OS-9 disks need 
> to run in DOS so can't be used with WinNT or WinXP systems.
> 
> If you are using WinXP, you have two choices that make sense. Make a DOS 

I am running in XP.

I didn't know the disk imaging programs wouldn't work right.

The last time I accessed a CoCo or OS9 floppy was.... Oh.... Probably around 1998 or so.  I would have been using DOS or had just switched to Win98.

So I just tried what worked before.  It didn't even occur to me that XP might be the problem.


> boot disk which WinXP can do and then use a program that reads a Coco 
> disk. Obtain OmniFlop
> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
> which runs under WinXP, Win2000, and WinNT.

Booting to DOS would be difficult....

The hard drive is NTFS, so I wouldn't be able to save the image.  I would rather avoid backing up the disk, reformating it and installing DOS or Win98 to do this.  I could it, but I'd rather avoid it...

I'm giving the OmniFlop a try.  It needs a reg code to work on CoCo disks, and the program isn't wanting to activate with the code that was sent to me.  I've got an email out to the author, so hopefully I will hear something soon.


Thanks for the help!

 
> Also, rather than throw away your Coco related items, you may be able to 
> sell them to readers of this list. Why not make a detailed list of what 
> you have, post it here, and see what happens? You can throw your system 
> and mags away if there is no interest.


I gotta admit, I've gotten more interest than I expected.

My old system is nothing special.  That's why I didn't think too many would care.  That it'd wouldn't even be worth the cost of shipping.

And most of my software is old warez stuff.  Back then, I wouldn't have bought it anyway, so they didn't loose a sale.  But still, it's not original copies.

I figured whatever I had was probably already widely available in the CoCo community.

About the only thing I had that I felt was probably rae was Pascal09 (not many people cared about Pascal) and Roger Young's chess & checker's program that he sent to me.


I think I will make up a list of what I have.  I don't think I'll do ebay, though.  I'm not comfortable with ebay.  I've bought a couple things there but I never sold anything.  I prefer to see what I buy.  Have direct one to one contact with the seller or buyer.  I'm old fashioned, I guess.

But that will be after I get these floppy disks copied.

Carey