[Coco] The .DSK format/structure
Salvador Garcia
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Fri Aug 22 23:30:55 EDT 2014
Thank you Aaron and Bill. Salvador
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 10:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] The .DSK format/structure
Salvador, the DECB format is explained in the DECB user's manual and the OS9
format is explained in the OS9 manual. Both of which are available online in
almost every Coco archive on the net.
Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Salvador Garcia <ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 10:03 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] The .DSK format/structure
Ok, I'm curious. If the DSK is just a raw image of the disk then it follows that
ts "format" is that of the operating system that wrote that image. So this begs
he next question (at least for me). How would I go about knowing the format of
he disk? In MS-DOS there was the boot sector (for floppies), followed by 2
opies of the FAT and finally the directory structure. Is such information
vailable for DECB and OS/9? (Assimng that NitrOS9 shares the same disk format
ith OS/9). Salvador
-----Original Message-----
rom: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
o: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
ent: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 6:26 pm
ubject: Re: [Coco] The .DSK format/structure
n 23/08/2014 12:56 AM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
> I want to look at the differences between the Apple2 and coco .DSK images.
Would someone point me to the following:
Differences - absolutely none!
Both are raw dumps of sector data.
> I want to write a small program that will detect the image type and dump
the contents of either disk image.
The DSK files *are* dumps of the disk image.
Regards,
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