[Coco] Reading and Writing CoCo RSDOS disks on PC

[Chen Herzog]

Have you tried Omniflop?
It lets you format, read and write CoCo floppies from XP (there's also a dos
version - omnidisk which I haven't tried).
Works wonders for me... no more rebooting in dos mode for dskini+port
Free registration is required for activation.
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm



On 10/7/06, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>
> I'll have to toy with this one.  I have three Compaq Deskpro ENs, 733 MHz
> P3s.  They are my primary internet terminals, so this sort of play may
> take
> some shuffling, but you do have my curiosity going.
>
> For simple emulation, I have had my best luck with Jeff V's emulator on
> 200
> MHz P1 machines.  Rock solid for emulation, reading and writing CoCo
> disks,
> is still my 486.  Something about the newer machines just does not seem to
> work with 360k drives for moving CoCo disks to DSK format.
>
> Bruce W.
>
>
>
> > Having some issues -
> >
> > Got a Compaq Deskpro EN, like 800MHz P3, installed HD, DOS 6.22, removed
> CD, installed 5.25" 360KB floppy drive.
> >
> > Man - what a flashback machine!
> >
> > Anyways, using port.exe, can't read any CoCo floppies.
> > Dskini.exe will format it, but port.exe will not read what dskini just
> formatted.
> >
> > DOS will format, copy to, and read from it, so i know the floppy is
> good.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Any other software to use to image coco floppies for archiving?
> >
> >
> > Tony
>
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