[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 55, Issue 1

[Ghislain Harvey]

Thank you for your time to answer it is seriously apreciated.
I did try the emulator you talked to me about and what you say is true.

Im interested to have the program : Backup magic you have talk about.
Can you direct me where I can get ou buy it?
Thank you again.

Ghislain Harvey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "carl j england" <mrspock12 at juno.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 55, Issue 1


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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:43:09 -0500
> > From: Ghislain Harvey <ghislainharvey at videotron.ca>
> > Subject: [Coco] VCC 1.17 FD question and The Defeater request
> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
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> > Hi great community.
> > 
> > I use the VCC 1.17 emulator and came across a problem you might help 
> > me
> > solve.
> > 
> > On my real COCO3 I have 2 FDD and I was able to access it by a DIR0 
> > (first
> > side from drive 1) and a DIR2 (second side from drive1)
> > 
> > Now in VCC 1.17 this doesn't work. DIR2 give me access to drive 2.
> > 
> > IS there a way to disable the other drive or maybe there is a DIR 
> > command
> > switch I do not know?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > My Other question is about the B.A.S.H copy protection. I'm trying 
> > to dump
> > it on the PC but was not able to do it event with the program: The 
> > Defeater.
> > 
> > Is there a way to do this? Or is there maybe a new version of The 
> > Defeater
> > By Carl England.  I think my version is not the latest.
> > 
> > Thanks to all who wish to help me.
> > 
> > Ghislain Harvey
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> the back sides of emulated disks can be read on the emulator (i am using
> david kiel's emulator).  i use Super Boot (my own program which nis in
> the public domain and should be available from several sources).  it sets
> drive 2 as the back side of drive 0 and drive 3 as the back side of drive
> 1.  i don't think it works on the "real" floppy drive on the pc, but it
> works well on the emulated drives.  also it allows you to set your
> emulator drives as 80-track drives.  one neat thing about the emulator is
> that you can set it to run at maximum speed (press f6 until ???? is
> displayed), and unlike the real coco, the drives will still function
> (even the "real" drive).  i have had "real" disks that had problems
> reading at normal speed, but read flawlessly at maximum speed.
> 
> there have been a few new features added to The Defeater since 1995, but
> if you have the version that allows you to save a track or sector to a
> file (for later transfer to the pc) then you have the latest version.  i
> don't feel that there is much more that can be done to the defeater
> without a total re-write (which is what i did when i wrote "backup
> magic".
> 
> i am not familiar with B.A.S.H. but would am willing to answer questions
> if i have more details.
> 
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