[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Copy protection
Charlie
chazbeenhad at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 3 10:15:59 EDT 2004
As it turns out, I went through the scrap pile here at work thats
going to be throw out at the end of the week and found a 486sx-33
machine. I cleaned it up and I'll try the COCO floppy in this beast
tonight as my last attempt with Anadisk. :-)
-Charlie
-- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "sadolph" <sadolph at m...> wrote:
> I'll mention that I am running the Coco floppy in a 486 based PC..
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie
> To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Color Computer] Copy protection
>
>
> I could NOT get the FD-501 drive to work as drive B on any of 3
> different PCs last night.
>
> 1st of all, as it was with a 1.44 floppy on the ribbon cable both
> drives acted as A at the same time.
>
> I cut the line that said DS0 and the FD-501 drive seemed to be
acting
> as B just fine however, the A drive was working but would not
read
> any disk. The system would try to boot from A but just get a not
> readable error insert system disk or something.
>
> Tonight I'm going to solder back the the DS0 line and take one of
the
> old PCs and throw a bootable DOS hdd in it and hook up the FD-501
> drive as a single drive A and see what happens.
>
> Any tips on getting this 180K fd-501 disk to work on a PC?
>
> -Charlie
>
>
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "sadolph" <sadolph at m...>
wrote:
> >
> > What I've found recently is that Anadisk reads the old coco
> formatted disks fine, but
> > when it comes to writing the old format on a new disk, there is
a
> dependance on the
> > actual floppy drive.
> >
> > When I've tried to replicate disks using an IBM 360K drive, I
had
> problems every time.
> > the disks were unusable, and when examined in detail, the final
> sector in the cylinder
> > was corrupted.
> >
> > I've since mounted an actual Tandy 180K floppy drive in my PC
to
> overcome this. I use a
> > drive that shipped with my coco FD-501. That seems to work
> correctly and so far, every
> > time.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 1 , "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at h...> wrote:
> > >
> > > <html><body>
> > >
> > >
> > > <tt>
> > > <BR>
> > > You'd need to run a careful analysis of the master floppy
first
> and probably<BR>
> > > do a special format. The generic 'copy' probably isn't smart
> enough to fix<BR>
> > > things. Even then the guy MAY have a cunning protection
scheme.
> Some used<BR>
> > > two sectors on a track with the same numbers. Others buried
stuff
> between<BR>
> > > the sectors. You need to find out what the trick was in order
to
> make the<BR>
> > > copy.<BR>
> > > <BR>
> > > Neil<BR>
> > > <BR>
> > > ----- Original Message ----- <BR>
> > > From: "Charlie" chazbeenhad at h...<BR>
> > > <BR>
> > > > Anadisk 2.07 doesnt seem to work right.... V2.06 did
copy
> Sundog<BR>
> > > > games, but when trying to load them on the COCO3 I would
get
> IO<BR>
> > > > errors. I can do a DIR and see the files, but when I try
to
> load the<BR>
> > > > game it either gets stuck (white fire of eternity) or
gives
> an IO<BR>
> > > > error (Sinistar).<BR>
> > > ><BR>
> > > > Still no way to copy these old disks :-(<BR>
> > > ><BR>
> > > > -Charlie<BR>
> > > <BR>
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