[Coco] emulator questions

[John E. Malmberg]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> The RETRIEVE.EXE tool in Jeff Vavasour's CoCo emulators works well for 
> moving real CoCo disks onto virtual .DSK files on your PC.
> I'm surprised nobody told you this already.  But, I'm guessing your PC's 
> floppy controller would have to support 256-byte sectors and you might 
> even need an older floppy drive

All PC hardware still supports the 256 byte sectors.  It is just a 
question of what software interfaces are availble to access.

Given the correct software a new 5.25 inch drive should have no problem 
reading any 5.25 inch COCO disk.  It may require writing a custom disk 
driver depending on the OS.

And the same is the case for a 3.5 inch floppy.

It's the TRS80 Model I/III/IV that needs a special floppy controller to 
read the directory track because they did something funny.

-John
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