[Coco] Rusty ole FD-501

[Chad H]

I'm not even looking at the emulators themselves.  I'm just looking at the RETRIEVE and DSKINI imaging utilities.  I'm seeing Jeffs copyright's from the 90's all over the source code for them.

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce via Coco
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:11 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501


The easiest way to find out what John did to the emulator is to compare his sources to Jeff's sources.
Jeff's version is on his site. John's version is in maltedmedia and kinda hard to find (buried in a zip somewhere) But I have the source files.
I ran John's version of the Coco 3 emulator from the time he released it up until Joseph got Vcc 1.41 semi-stable. John's 6309 emulator was what I was running NitrOS9 L3 on after I found Alan's site. About that same time I moved to WinXP and couldn't run Jeff/John's emulator any more without a VBox and went to VCC 1.41 which still had some problems so I tried Mess. Mess was going through some changes and got screwed up (and still is) about the same time Joseph got Vcc 1.42 released, so I switched and that's where I stayed.


Jeff's Coco3 Emulator -1994 - 2001
John's 6309+ enhancements - 2003 (from the source dates)
 

Bill Pierce
"Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 11:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501


Hi,

You might be hitting the NEVER SUPPORT 256 byte sectors in Windows. The hardware companies controllers may not support 256 byte sectors either.

I had to drive over the hill to Scott's Valley to get Seagate to load old firmware onto a hard drive that the manual clearly said supported it. (1980+)

Do you have a VERY old computer with a FAT32 partition?

Or an old one that you can add a FAT32 partition? Then installing Windows 98 SE or MSDOS may solve your problems.

512 byte sectors is the best size, everyone moved away from 256 byte sectors.

I am trying to determine when John released the 6309 Emulator so messages can searched for his posts.

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The only person who knows about John's 6309 emulator and has run it ever may be me.

Jeff might remember what John discovered, but it is a very long shot.

SHF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: "'Bill Pierce'" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501


> Unfortunately the older version (v1.3) didn’t even attempt to support
accessing both sides of the floppy so that is kinda going backwards for me.  I did find a the assembly source of the old version and it almost looks like a re-write of the whole thing from 1.3 to the current 1.6?  I combed the code looking for something I could change and experiment with but everything I tried either caused no effect at all or chaos.
> 
> I know it's most undoubtedly a long shot, but I emailed Jeff and asked 
> if he
could shed a little light on the matter or be of assistance.  While the work-around does make the current version fully functional, it can still remain an annoyance when trying to RETRIEVE a diskette that was never DSKINI'd by his utility.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill 
> Pierce via
Coco
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:50 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> 
> Chad, you are correct that the files were better in their older forms.
> Here's the link to Jeff's Emulator page as well as the original files. 
> I think
you'll find everything here. Just scroll down for the Coco 3 stuff
> http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco2
> 
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> Bill Pierce
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