[Coco] CocoSDC

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

> Because CoCoSDC looks to the CoCo like a standard disk controller, any
> software written for the CoCo to access disk works as normal

Not exactly true. Nibblers would not work. Steve Bojrk's Z-89 would not
work as it uses half-tracks.

Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:46 PM, <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
> There are also several programs which access disk using their own
> routines. These are programs that generally won't work with Drivewire
> or any other type of SD storage device (Superdrive?)
>
> Because CoCoSDC looks to the CoCo like a standard disk controller, any
> software written for the CoCo to access disk works as normal. CoCoSD
> emulates the floppy hardware interface and the CoCo thinks it's
> writing to a floppy when it's actually writing to a PC FAT formatted
> SD card. This card is then readable directly on a PC using a common
> USB SD card reader.
>
> I can transfer the content of a mounted DSK between the CoCo and a PC
> using drivewire which is also built in to CoCoSDC.
>
> And the added RS-DOS commands (especially with Darren's latest update)
> makes it easy navigating the SD card structure and mounting DSK's.
>
> I love my CoCoSDC! Best CoCo investment I have made!
>
> Nick
>
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> Sent:Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:24:42 -0400
> Subject:Re: [Coco] CocoSDC
>
>  I assume you mean copy-protected stuff?
>
>  What puzzles me there is how do you get the game or whatever onto the
> SD
>  card in the same copy-protected format it had on the diskette? Seems
> like
>  accomplishing that would in many cases be more difficult than
> removing the
>  copy protection entirely.
>
>  (The links in your post don't get me to anyplace that I can find that
> gives
>  the "greater detail" you refer to.)
>
>  Art
>
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