[Coco] Floppies to PC or other OSs

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 19:13:27 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> On 13/02/2013 14:42, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>
>> With Windows/XP and later, Microsoft removed the API for setting the
>> floppy sector size.
>
>
> While this is true there are replacement floppy drivers that will allow you
> to access disks with 256 byte sectors, if you are prepared to do a little
> coding on the PC end.
>
> this can be found here : http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
>

The CoCoDisk application (for Windows 2000, XP and later) has been
available for several years. It does require installation of the
fdrawcmd driver mentioned above.

It can be downloaded from the Nitros9 site using this link:
<http://www.nitros9.org/FILES/CoCoDisk.zip>

Darren



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