[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Luis Fernández]

The disk MASTR503.DSK or F503MSA.DSK have 18 sector in track 0 (MIXED FORMAT FLEX AND DECB) (Size 156672 &h263ff just no TRACK DOS BOOT ) BOOT in track 33
The disk  188AA_02.DSK is DECB (Size ok 161280) (Boot in &h26300 and not in &h26400) 34*18*256






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> From: SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:47:42 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bob, my bad, and I had the manual right in my hand a second before. Print 
> too small for my new eyes.
> 
> Darren, OS-9 disks have the density in the .dsk file, but the utilities do 
> not use it AFAIK.
> 
> I have been trying to determine if Track 0 single-density has a different 
> number of sectors, so far TSC in their FLEX manuals says 10 and 10 for the 
> double-density tracks.
> 
> FLEX is the only OS to do this different track 0 AFAIK.
> 
> If that is true, then a .dsk would not be any different if all tracks were 
> double-density including track 0.
> 
> But then why are we having problems with "188AA_02.DSK"?
> 
> Luis, can you extract: "DRIVE is 0, TRACK is 16, and sector is 9"?
> 
> A hex dump cannot be disassembled but someone with experience might be able 
> to read the hex and understand it.
> 
> I could do that ~ 1970 for Super Computer PP code.
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Bob Devries wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have unearthed a disk here of FLEX 3.3. It *does* work on the Coco3; I
> >> booted it, and typed "cat" and got a file listing.
> >>
> >> However... It is as I suspected, track 0 of the disk is not a standard
> >> format (probably single-density); it returns I/O error when I try to read
> >> it.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if it is possible to image such a disk?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Tim Lindner has shown how to patch Basic so that DSKI$ can be used to
> > read single density sectors:
> >
> > <http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=250>
> >
> > This may at least allow you to extract the information from the disk.
> > Making an image using the data would likely be more complicated
> > (maybe needing to edit a DMK file by hand in a hex editor).
> >
> > Next question: Do any of the emulators support single density tracks
> > in a DMK file?
> >
> > Darren
> 
> 
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