[Coco] Help - CoCo emulator disk image formats...???

[Bob Devries]

The latest version of Omniflop will read 3.5" double sided 80 track OS9 
disks.

I know this, because I sent him a request to add that format, and he replied 
straight away that he would. I downloaded the newer version, and sure 
enough, it works.

I'm using WinXP Pro SP2

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carey Eugene" <carey at cebridge.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help - CoCo emulator disk image formats...???


> Bert & Peggy;
>
>> What PC operating system are you running?  I'm using Windows XP and for
>
> I'm using XP.
>
>> some reason, I can't copy data onto a 3.5" floppy in the CoCo format.  I
>
> I haven't tried copying data to an OS9 disk.  I've only been concerned 
> about getting it off there.
>
> I don't know what kind of format the 3.5" coco disk has, but it's possible 
> that your version of OmniFlop can't handle it.
>
> He just added double sided 360k coco disk format to his supported list, so 
> it's possible that your version can't understand the format you are using.
>
> Have you had it analyze the formatted disk?  Just to make sure OmniFlop 
> knows how to handle it?
>
>
>> can format the disk (of course I can format it on my CoCO) but I can't
>> copy data onto the floppy.  Someone said that Omniflop doesn't really
>> work well for CoCo formats under XP.
>
> It's certainly true that XP gets in the way.  (I can't even format a 
> regular DOS 1.2m floppy under XP.  It just plain doesn't like 5.25" 
> floppies.)
>
> I came darn close to wiping the drive on that spare computer and 
> installing Win98 on it.
>
> I even looked into the possibility of doing a 'Live' Win98 cd.  You know, 
> like the Live Linux cd's that you can boot and run directly off the cd. 
> You can do that with WinXP using "BartPE", but for Win98, it's tied to the 
> hardware of the system it's running on.  So I'd have to install Win98 
> before I could make a Live cd.
>
>
> It's really a shame the old DOS copy program 'OS9' doesn't work in a DOS 
> box under XP.
>
> I'm tempted to dig out the source code and see if there's anyway to get XP 
> to cooperate.  I remember a friend used to be interested in reading old 
> dos disks.  180k, 160k, and other odd formats.  He ended up with some way 
> to do it, but he might have been using Win2k.
>
> Carey
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