[Coco] CocoSDC

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

oh that's great! in fact i didn't use much the device yet :)

by nibblers I meant similar to apple ii nibblers that copy many aspects of
the floppy not only pure sector data.


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Because CoCoSDC looks to the CoCo like a standard disk controller, any
> > > software written for the CoCo to access disk works as normal
> >
> > Not exactly true. Nibblers would not work. Steve Bojrk's Z-89 would not
> > work as it uses half-tracks.
> >
>
>
> I don't know what you mean by 'nibblers', but the CoCo SDC does work with
> most copy-protected software including Z-89. In fact, I'm not aware of any
> copy-protected software that won't work, but I haven't tested everything.
>
> The trick is to construct a working image in the SDF format. There is a
> page on the blog site that discusses image formats in more detail. There is
> also a link to download a program that will convert DMK images to the SDF
> format.
>
> Darren
>
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