[Coco] Coco Flex

[Ron Bihler]

You are on track as it may be, Track O was single sided and might have 
been single density as well.  This allowed the computer to read the disk 
and then know what format the rest of the disk was formated in. 
I guess what really is different between the formats is the disk 
layout.  You are bringing up a good point and it should be possible to 
take the dsk images and just plop them on a disk.  I am not sure what 
the trk 0 thing will do. 

Do you know of a good util to write the dsk images to floppy?  I am 
tempted to try Cocodisk !

Thanks
Ron

Bob Devries wrote:
> Ron,
>
> As far as I know Coco FLEX used the Colour Computer disk format (35 
> tracks, 18 SPT, 1 side), so if you're talking about thos images, then 
> yes they should be able to be copied to real disks. However, I don't 
> know what format the other computers, such as the SWPTE used.
>
> Some OS's in that era used single density for either track 0 or all 
> tracks, and the number of SPT may vary also.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Bihler" <rbihler at msn.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Flex
>
>
>> Thanks Bob.
>> Humm, I only have a Coco 3 so that option is out.  It was worth a try :)
>>
>> Do you know if the dsk images can be coped to a real disk?  There 
>> must be a utility that create Flex diskettes ?
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> Bob Devries wrote:
>>> Ron,
>>>
>>> I have the FLEX disks here, and I believe I have images too.
>>> One problem I found was that FLEX does not run on a Coco3. I've also 
>>> tried without success to run the image in an emulator, but even in 
>>> the MESS coco2 emulator, it hangs at the time & date input prompt. I 
>>> have not tried Jeff Vavasour's coco2 emulator.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>
>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>
>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Bihler" <rbihler at msn.com>
>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:01 AM
>>> Subject: [Coco] Coco Flex
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am working on an Old SWTPC 6809 S09 system running Flex (Hopefully)
>>>>
>>>> The system was working, but I didn't get the floppy drives and 
>>>> can't seem to get the drives I have to read the diskettes.  Not 
>>>> sure what the issue is, good possibility it's something not set 
>>>> correctly.  However I had this thought that the Coco can run a 
>>>> version of flex and might be able to verify the diskettes or even 
>>>> copy a new set. Back to the same issue, how to get Flex disk.  I am 
>>>> assuming the Boot disk is RSDOS, but it would need to load Flex 
>>>> format disks.
>>>> Anyway my real goal is to find a way to read/write a flex 
>>>> diskette.  I want to see if I can even read the boot disk's I have.
>>>>
>>>> I am hoping to make the disk on a PC or linux would be fine as 
>>>> well. Will need to pull out the L-Box.
>>>> Anyone have any experience running Flex and the floppy system, know 
>>>> more about it>?
>>>>
>>>> Any assistance or suggestions are welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
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