[Coco] Multi-Vue for coco3 L2 OS-9

John T Chasteen johnchasteen.2 at juno.com
Thu May 10 14:30:31 EDT 2007


Thanks Robert for your help. I fliped over the master and still had error
messages when trying to backup the program disk. Hopefully I'll be
successful in copying your files

John
 
On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:13:15 -0400 Robert Gault
<robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> John T Chasteen wrote:
> >  Robert
> > I tried to open the two files you attached. Windows Xp (Home 
> edition)
> > what file created these files.
> > 
> > I don't know how to get these files to an OS-9 5.25 floppy..... 
> HELP !!!
> > Do I have to have an identical file name on the backup floppy? 
> > John
> > 
> 
> The sent files are in a winzip archive. The contents are .dsk (JVC) 
> 
> images with an .os9 extension to make it obvious they are not RSDOS 
> 
> images. The images can be opened in MESS or the JVC emulators. You 
> can 
> convert them to real floppies using OmniFlop under WinXP.
> 
> The files were created on a Coco3 with a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" 
> drive. 
> The original Multi-Vue disk was copied to the 3.5" and read on a 
> WinXP 
> PC with OmniFlop. As my system is dual boot with Win98SE, I could 
> also 
> read them under Win98SE with RETRIEVE.EXE or OS9.EXE.
> 
> You did mention that the original disk is a Flippy. It should go 
> without 
> saying that you must flip the disk in the drive to read both sides. 
> If 
> you don't flip it, you will not be able to backup the second side of 
> the 
> disk.
> 
> 
 



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