[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Kip Koon]

Luis,
What version disk rom did you use?  Just Disk Basic 1.1?
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Luis Fernández
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 7:22 PM
To: COCO
Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex

I work myself to the first
use XROAR
and FLEX v5.0\MASTR503.DSK



> From: computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 03:34:46 -0400
> Subject: [Coco]  FHL Color Flex
> 
> I wonder what version work on the coco.  FHL Color Flex does at least 
> begin to boot.  It just has a major problem with the emulator.  I just 
> tried VCC, XRoar, and Return of COCO all loaded with the latest 
> version of HDBDOS for that particular emulator.  They all produce the same
results when I try to
> type in the date.   Hum...
> A couple of years ago, I did get it to boot.  I entered the date and 
> it went on and booted into Flex, displayed the initial Flex boot 
> message and I got the famous "+++" prompt.  But at that point, I 
> didn't know anything about it so I could not even do a directory 
> listing to see what was on the disk image.  However with CocoDskUtil, 
> now I can at least look at the directory of a Flex disk and see the
filenames and how big the files are.
> Maybe Cataloging of disk image contents can be added to CocoDskUtil.
Luis?
> Anyway, I think I was still using the regular Disk Basic 1.1 roms in 
> the emulator at the time.  Maybe that is the problem?  I'll have to 
> test that idea.
> Kip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Willard Goosey
> 
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:30:17PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> > As far as I know, FHL Color Flex is not compatible with the Coco3. 
> > Not only that, but it used a special disk format, in that track 0 
> > was
> single-density.
> > 
> > I too, have tried numerous times to get those images to work.
> 
> I've also tried and failed to get those images to work.
> 
> Willard
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