[Coco] Reading and Writing CoCo RSDOS disks on PC

[Bruce W. Calkins]

I'll have to toy with this one.  I have three Compaq Deskpro ENs, 733 MHz
P3s.  They are my primary internet terminals, so this sort of play may take
some shuffling, but you do have my curiosity going.

For simple emulation, I have had my best luck with Jeff V's emulator on 200
MHz P1 machines.  Rock solid for emulation, reading and writing CoCo disks,
is still my 486.  Something about the newer machines just does not seem to
work with 360k drives for moving CoCo disks to DSK format.

Bruce W.



> Having some issues -
>
> Got a Compaq Deskpro EN, like 800MHz P3, installed HD, DOS 6.22, removed
CD, installed 5.25" 360KB floppy drive.
>
> Man - what a flashback machine!
>
> Anyways, using port.exe, can't read any CoCo floppies.
> Dskini.exe will format it, but port.exe will not read what dskini just
formatted.
>
> DOS will format, copy to, and read from it, so i know the floppy is good.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Any other software to use to image coco floppies for archiving?
>
>
> Tony