[Coco] Crunch?

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 13:56:47 EDT 2009


On 6/4/09, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>
> The only foolproof way to fix this is to build a time machine and go back
> and tell Jeff about this problem and have him require a header on all files,
> something that I remember one emulator tried to do.
>
> And then insure that all programs follow this requirement.
>
> Jeff knew nothing about OS-9 existence initially so he cannot be blamed.
>
> I think he was made aware of OS-9 only after the CoCo 3 emulator was first
> released.
>
> SHF
>


VCC should adopt the MESS convention of giving an OS-9 disk image an
".os9" file name extension. Never assume that an image file with a
".dsk" extension has the disk geometry in LSN 0.

Darren



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