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

[Bob Devries]

I'm using Omniflop V2.01i
I don't have a 5.25" drive, so I can't try that format.

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Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

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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 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help - CoCo emulator disk image formats...???


> Bob;
>
>
>
>> The latest version of Omniflop will read 3.5" double sided 80 track OS9 
>> disks.
>
> Which one are you talking about?  v2.01i or v2.01j?
>
> The 2.01j isn't up on his website yet, although you can download it by 
> changing the filename.
>
> The 2.01i can't read my 5.25" 40 track 360k dsdd OS9 disks, although it 
> could do other CoCo 360k disks.  It thought they were some new weird 
> format it had never seen before.
>
> v2.01j can read them.
>
> So maybe B&P have a slightly unusual format that 2.01i just doesn't like.
>
>
>
> I was taking a look at my os9 v2.06a program source and maaaaan that code 
> is ugly...[grin]
>
> It looks like it's doing the 256 byte sector stuff in a way that XP's dos 
> box doesn't like.  That's why it doesn't work.
>
> But I don't know if I can get it to work.  It depends on just how many 
> int13's Microsoft has disabled or chose not to emulate.  People have been 
> saying for years that XP's dos box (cmd.exe & command.com) are extremely 
> broken, so it's probably the needed interupts are neutered.
>
> I'd have to hunt up my old Turbo C++ 3.0 too, to work on it.
>
> Carey
>
>
>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>
>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>
>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
>> ----- 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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