[Coco] Rainbow ROT / ROD status Was: Program stash

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Thanks for the Good News for Rainbow magazine readers.

The list of disks available is now at:

http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer13/

Following a vague hint to look in the CoCo Dump #3 I have found some more online. Also CoCo Dump #1 has a few more. CoCo Dump #2 which contains a good copy of CoCo Dump #1 also has a few. CoCo Dump #3 contains a copy of the OS-9 files in Dump #2 and a non-usable copy of the DECB files in Dump #2 plus a defective copy of dump #1. (Test later :) )

So it will take some time as ~ 5,000 disks need to be looked at.

Anyone willing to look at 175 disks labeled 0000.dsk to 0174.dsk. Really! 

I have made requests to the two authors of utilities that understand CoCo disks for a new utility to print out the dirs of the entire set but nothing back yet.

I wish any comments about the list of disks, I know it takes some time to understand the format but once understood checking for the available of any Rainbow ROT or ROD is quick.

My plans to complete this project by years end and add to the Internet Archive have failed as some known files have not been made available.

My previous project "Rainbow Magazine Text Search able Index" has been downloaded 1,169 times.

 https://archive.org/details/RainbowMagazineTextSearchableIndex

SHF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Batson" <steve at batsonphotography.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow ROT / ROD status Was: Program stash


> Stephen,
> 
> I just pulled some my CoCo Stuff out of boxes and go through it. I have a bunch of Rainbow on Disks from 1990. I don't know yet if they are still working or not, but my disc collection seems to be in pretty good shape and some of my other disks load well. Anyway, once I go through some of these and see if I have any other years, and see if I can copy them to .DSK files, I'd be happy to share the missing months as .DSK files
> 
> Let me know here on the list or privately :)
>