[Coco] Crunch?

[Paul Fitch]

I don't think you have anything to fix either, since its not broken.  Of
course, I always assumed that a .DSK or .OS9 image was an actual virtual
COPY of a real disk in all respects.  

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Stephen H. Fischer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Crunch?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Another CoCoer who is glad you are still with us.!!
> 
> 
> I must decline to honor your request for personal reasons.
> 
> And,
> 
> after much thought I have come to the conclusion that it is 
> best to not address this problem.
> 
> It is far better that if someone uses VCC that they see this 
> problem right away when all that is on the "dsk" are files 
> elsewhere in the zip or recreated by a simple test run of the 
> preprocessor.
> 
> I believe that this problem can occur anytime when files are 
> imported, created, deleted and so on.
> 
> Losing the users files would be far worse, with the existing 
> triggering "dsk" file they must either fix the problem 
> themselves or ask for help.
> 
> In either case they would be forewarned.
> 
> As the target user base for Urbane are experienced advanced 
> DECB persons, this should not be a problem.
> 
> Persons who like me who have written several long DECB 
> programs and have become frustrated, angry, bitter towards 
> anyone involved in the creation of any line numbered required Basic.
> 
> Urbane was the result when I attempted to merge four similar 
> short DECB programs into one medium length one so the four 
> displays could be on the screen at the same time.
> 
> I gave up and several days later the FLEX Basic Preprocessor 
> popped up in my head as the solution.
> 
> http://www.flexusergroup.com/flexusergroup/pdfs/basprec.pdf
> 
> I did very little with my first 6809 system but I purchased 
> FLEX, Basic and the Basic Preprocessor. (SYM-1 Based)
> 
> The date on the PDF is 1979.
> 
> I understand why I did not create Urbane for DECB before but 
> I do not understand why someone else did not. In my mind 
> publishing Urbane in Rainbow and on Rainbow on Disk would 
> have had a huge effect then.
> 
> 
> Having a fully functional first version of Urbane really made 
> the project doable.
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Crunch?
> 
> 
> > At 04:03 PM 5/31/2009, you wrote:
> >>Stephen, I downloaded the zip file on COCO3.com, and I think the
> >>Urbane.dsk
> >>file is currupted? Its certianly smaller than my other .DSK 
> files. It
> >>shows
> >>only 126k when all the others are 158K. VCC won't let me 
> load it into the
> >>"disk drive".
> >
> > I just checked and my local copy of the .dsk file is also 
> 126k. Maybe the
> > author will e-mail me another copy so I can replace it.
> >
> > -- 
> > Roger Taylor
> 
> 
> 
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