[Coco] [Color Computer] Got my Coco out of mothballs...

Christopher Smith csmith at wolfram.com
Mon Sep 30 12:29:01 EDT 2013


I was going to suggest that this could be done, if it hadn't already.  :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 5:45:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Got my Coco out of mothballs...
> 
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> 
> > That thread is raising one question in my mind : should not be that
> > hard to
> > write a filesystem driver for Linux to be able to format and
> > read/write
> > files in the coco floppy format. Then we could just use normal
> > commands (or
> > GUI tools) to copy to/from coco floppy.
> 
> The cocofuse extension from toolshed permits you to mount an image
> file
> and deal with it directly.  Never tried it with an actual floppy, but
> in
> theory this should be possible.  Remember:  In Unix (Linux)
> everything is
> a file.
> 
> 
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Christopher Smith
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