[Coco] DEFT Pascal

[Kenneth Schunk]

Odd that the disk images don't work. I was using them on the Mac 
emulator, but that doesn't run on my new G4 iBook, and I haven't had 
time to setup the MESS emulator on it. I've got an older PC downstairs 
that I know has working disk images on it - I'll pack those up and send 
them on.

I'd bet that the extra bytes are a resource fork that the Mac added, 
and that the Mac happily ignores..

Ken

On Jan 4, 2004, at 3:57 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:

>> From: "Jones, Orville CPT" <JonesO at k2.cjtf180.army.mil>
>> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 07:01:32 -0000
>>
>> I just tried to load your DEFT pascal disk in MESS and I am getting a 
>> "?FS
>> ERROR" when ever I try to load any of the files for some reason.
>
> Ahh yes, I remember this.  And just re-downloaded the virtual disks to
> make sure...
>
> Ken's virtual disks have a weird header on them (maybe they're the
> Dragon emulator format virtual disks?)  Anyway, the virtual disk is:
>
>  164 -rw-r--r--   1 goosey   users      161792 Sep  2  2000 DEFT.DSK
>
> and it needs to be:
>  164 -rw-r--r--   1 goosey   users      161665 Dec 22  2002 deftnew.dsk
>
> So just load the file into an 8-bit clean editor (MSDOG edit works
> fine) and delete the first 127 bytes.
>
> You can tell when you've trimmed enough off because the directory will
> look right. (You can see what the directory SHOULD be from the editor
> -- track 17's about half-way through the virtual disk.) 
>
> You'll need to do this for both the DEFT and AGS disks.
>
> Good luck, this looks like a nice CoCo 1/2 Pascal system.  It can do
> 32K RAM / 32K ROM or 64K RAM development, but prefers the 64K RAM
> setup, where it unmaps BASIC and uses its own primitives to deal with
> the hardware directly.  The AGS is rather impressive for a PMODE
> GUI/graphics library.
>
>> Have a great day.
>> Alan
>
> Willard
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