[Coco] Dragons

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Wed May 13 02:40:09 EDT 2009


On 5/13/09, tonym wrote:
>
> I meant that I couldn't read disks for the Dragon, not CoCo disks - wouldn't
> even THINK of doing that :)
> I don't know if my issue is that DSKINI.EXE can't write the Dragon .VDK's
> properly, or what :)
>
> I'm trying to get .VDK dragon images onto real media.
> I assume with just standard DragonDos stuff, I'd have no issues, right?
>
> I can understand what you stated about the OS9 disks...
>


According to documentation in the MESS source code (coco_dsk.c)  VDK
files have a 12 byte header preceding the sector data.  I would guess
that DSKINI.EXE does not recognize this header and that everything is
being offset by 12 bytes.

Darren



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