[Coco] Tape-to-disk copy

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

OK, thanks, I got it installed on VCC.

BOO!!!!

It is not a replacement for DU21*DS, Disk Utility 2.1A, which I found in
many .dsk files on RTSI.

First, I am BLIND using it. It does not display by any means I could find,
the ASCII contents of files.

DU21*DS does the very minimum I will accept. Written for the CoCo 2.

Must have been fun to code, but it is awkward to use, and very slow compared
to DU21*DS.

I ran it on VCC, on a real CoCo 3 it must be a real PIG.

DU21*DS you can use with no instructions, the current options selected with
single keystrokes are displayed and the Super Commands are like
COLOR FOG attempts.

No, I did not do an intensive investigation, others may be happy with it.

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But I am comparing it with the first program I installed after MSDOS 3.3.

Lotus Magellan 2.0 written way back in 1990, I have used it a lot today on
Windows Vista and XP.

It is now 2012, Twenty years plus. And YES, I have installed it on W7, but
as required in the XP Virtual Machine.

I analyzed what the programmers had done and how they did it and was amazed.

I was running it initially on a CPU that was about as powerful as the 6809.

I fell in love with it within minutes and raced out to buy the real program.

I liked Luis Fernández's CoCoDskUtil quickly for many the same reasons, even
though it is a work in progress.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Tape-to-disk copy


> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:38:50AM -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>
>> I read a little bit of the DOC's and now I think that it might be a CoCo
>> 3
>> candidate replacement for DU21*DS.BIN (Disk Utility for the CoCo 2).
>>
>> Will you please put it on your web page and save me hours of searching as
>> it is in a poorly named .dsk file (D01.dsk - D56.dsk or ...)
>
> Sure.  http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/coco/colorfog100.zip
>
> Hurmp, for some reason I didn't have the FOG master disk backed up to
> drivewire already.  I must have skipped it on the idea that "I've
> already got this .dsk".  Wrong!
>
> Willard
> -- 
> Willard Goosey