[Coco] Rusty ole FD-501

[Stephen H. Fischer]

It has been many decades since I used John's 6309 emulator and about that time my interest went elsewhere.

It appears that he did some things like the GUI that I never heard about.

He was very unhappy about the response his work got and put the files on RTSI and disappeared.

Looking at the files I linked you appear to be correct about the missing files. I did grab a copy of his website and that might have more, but that file should be considered lost.

When I worked on "Urbane" I used Jeff's CoCo2 Emulator as both the emulator (Text Mode only) and the Port utility worked in a "CMD" window. ConText was the editor I used, a real programmers editor.

VCC is the emulator I have used most recently and used EmuDisk, CoCoDskUtil, PORT and OS9 for file transfers.

I am using EmuDisk right now to look at .dsk files (175) and getting more and more unhappy with each additional .dsk. And it is aborting on some.

There is no tool that is the best, use what you like and switch to another one when problems occur.

Fat32 world, not interested even though I could start Windows 98 SE with a few clicks in a virtual machine. That is where all my CoCo work will be done now. If a bad program does bad things it all can be erased just by deleting the Virtual Machine file.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> 
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501


> Well it appears there are some files missing from these archives :(
> 
> I did see the DSKINI & RETRIEVE executables...but they are identical to the ones I already have dated 6/8/2003.  Verified with FC.
> 
> There are source assembly files for the tools with a slightly newer date, but I can't be sure if the patch you mention is there.  Plus I would have to figure out what kind of assembler I can get a hold of to compile them
> 
> Interestingly, in the 'johncollyer_website.zip' there is a page on his "CoCo Tools" which seems to be a Windows XP re-write of the DSKINI/RETRIEVE functionality in a GUI.  However, no application files :(  Tried doing a google for these tools and his name with no luck.  Anyone got a copy?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Chad H
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:35 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> Thanks! I will check that out!
> 
> Sent from my Transformer Infinity
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 07:20 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> That is a known bug fixed by John Collier.
> 
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/Coco3%206309%20Emulator.zip
> 
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/johncollyer_website.zip
> 
> ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/john%20collyer/
> 
> The last contains a VHD with lots of goodies.
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 5:04 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> 
> ...  There was a strangle glitch with the utility though, I think I've seen it before with the 5.25" drives, where it wouldn't RETRIEVE side 2 of a disk written by the CoCo until you need did this weird thing...
>> 1) eject disk
>> 2) DIR -enter-  (drive noises and DOS errors of course)
>> 3) reinsert disk and RETRIEVE then it does fine
>>
> 
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