[Coco] MESS Emulator

[John Donaldson]

Robert,
   I wish you would tell me how to make it work. I am using a 486 DX 
running MSDOS
6.2. I have a 3" drive on A: and a real 360K drive on B: I bought a real 
copy of TSWORD
for both RDOS and OS9. On the emulator I have 4 discrptors setup the 4th 
is setup for
35TSSSD which is what the COCO OS9 disk is formated in. I set the 
emulator to have
drive B: as /D3. When I put the diskette in and do a DIR /D3, the drive 
spins but returns
an error. I also put a fresh diskette in and tryed to format it and 
again it failed. It is the
same for both the JV and JC emulators. I know the drive is good because 
I can format
read/write under MSDOS.

John Donaldson


Robert Gault wrote:

> You probably are running into the problem that was just discussed here 
> in length. Before you use the floppy on the Coco, run DSKINI.EXE on it 
> from the PC. Then you can write to it on the Coco and read it on the 
> PC from an emulator.
>
> When I say that the JV emulator works with real floppies, I'm not just 
> repeating the docs that come with the emulator. I'm reporting actual 
> results on my WIN98SE system.
>
> John Donaldson wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>>   That is true, but if you set /d0 to say b: and then try and do even 
>> a DIR /D0, it does not
>> work. The drive spins but returns either a seek or rad error.  I have 
>> a old 486 DX with
>> a real 360K coco drive as the B drive.
>>   You should be able to put a OS9 boot disk in it and it should boot 
>> OS9. It does not.
>> I know the drive works with a COCO, since I bought at one of the last 
>> fests I attended.
>>
>> John donaldson
>>
>>
>> Robert Gault wrote:
>>
>>> The JV emulator will access real floppies from within the emulator. 
>>> You just need to tell the emulator that a drive# goes to a:, b:, or 
>>> whatever your drive number is.
>>>
>