[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Luis Fernández]

I work myself to the first
use XROAR
and FLEX v5.0\MASTR503.DSK



> From: computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 03:34:46 -0400
> Subject: [Coco]  FHL Color Flex
> 
> I wonder what version work on the coco.  FHL Color Flex does at least begin
> to boot.  It just has a major problem with the emulator.  I just tried VCC,
> XRoar, and Return of COCO all loaded with the latest version of HDBDOS for
> that particular emulator.  They all produce the same results when I try to
> type in the date.   Hum...
> A couple of years ago, I did get it to boot.  I entered the date and it went
> on and booted into Flex, displayed the initial Flex boot message and I got
> the famous "+++" prompt.  But at that point, I didn't know anything about it
> so I could not even do a directory listing to see what was on the disk
> image.  However with CocoDskUtil, now I can at least look at the directory
> of a Flex disk and see the filenames and how big the files are.  
> Maybe Cataloging of disk image contents can be added to CocoDskUtil.  Luis?
> Anyway, I think I was still using the regular Disk Basic 1.1 roms in the
> emulator at the time.  Maybe that is the problem?  I'll have to test that
> idea.
> Kip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Willard Goosey
> 
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:30:17PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> > As far as I know, FHL Color Flex is not compatible with the Coco3. Not 
> > only that, but it used a special disk format, in that track 0 was
> single-density.
> > 
> > I too, have tried numerous times to get those images to work.
> 
> I've also tried and failed to get those images to work.
> 
> Willard
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