[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Manny]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Manny <manney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> 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?
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I've unearthed a few links that may help (at least with specs) while
> looking around for different programming languages.  When I get home
> (in about 5 or 6 hours,) I'll try to remember to send them through for
> you guys.
>
> I quickly read through the specs for the how a disk is formatted with
> TSC Flex, and I do seem to remember it saying that track 0 was
> single-density.  Anyway, there was a good bunch of people that
> followed Flex about 6 years ago that left a footprint with good
> information and possibly an emulator or two that I would guess has
> what you asked.
>
> -M.

I forgot that I had Chrome installed on this computer.  I've found a
link that, while not the one I was thinking of, may have some useful
information buried in it somewhere:

http://www.flexusergroup.com/flexusergroup/fug1.htm

If I find the one I was thinking of when I'm back at home, I'll email
it to the list.

HTH
-M.