[Coco] Easy way to copy 40 track disks to the CoCoSDC?

[Daniel Campos]

Hi Tim,

I tried that on my CoCo1 but the poke didn't work. It works only in a 
CoCo3 ?

Daniel

On 25/04/2015 13:50, tim lindner wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I'm continuing on my efforts to recover the remaining disks, but some of
>> them are 40 track disks and I think the BACKUP command on the SDC-DOS is not
>> recognizing the sources as 40 tracks. There is some way to easily copy them
>> to a .SDF file ?
> On a CoCo 3 address 53917 ($D29D) should be 35 ($23). This is where
> the BACKUP command gets the maximum track number. If you POKE 40 ($28)
> in that location BACKUP should go all the way to track 40. I've not
> tested this, so let us all know how it goes. :)
>
> If the disk is a normal 18 256 byte sectors per track, then there is
> no reason to use a .SDF file. A .DSK file will be sufficient. Also if
> the disk is not a normal 18 256 byte sectors per track, BACKUP
> wouldn't work anyway.
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