[Coco] Tape-to-disk copy

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Thu Mar 22 03:45:17 EDT 2012


You might check out the MENU utility that is part of Extended ADOS-3.
It is in part inspired by Jeff Francis' Disk Utility program that I
believe you're referring to, and includes a Scan option that displays
contents of ascii files and start/end/exec addresses for binary files.

Art

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
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