[Coco] Read coco disks on a PC
John Orwen
jorwen at neb.rr.com
Fri Mar 16 14:00:37 EDT 2012
I forgot to mention that
COCO2MS.BAS is in Rainbow July 86
On 3/16/2012 8:51 AM, John Orwen wrote:
> MS2COCO.BAS is in Rainbow June 86
>
> John N0GFB
>
>
> On 3/16/2012 1:20 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John E. Malmberg<wb8tyw at qsl.net>
>> wrote:
>>> I did an experiment a few years back and discovered that the COCO
>>> BASIC disk
>>> read/write routines could read/write sectors on MS-DOS formatted 512
>>> byte
>>> double density disks.
>>>
>>> So the question is: Who will be the first person to write a DISK Basic
>>> program to display the root directory of an MS-DOS formatted floppy.
>>>
>> Didn't Marty Goodman publish a program in Rainbow back in the late 80s
>> or so that did exactly that? I think it was called MS2CC or PC2CC or
>> something like that. I believe the same article also presented the
>> first program that could read CoCo disks on a PC.
>>
>> Art
>>
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