[Coco] Reading CoCo Disks

[Al Hartman]

You can probably read Coco disks using one of the emulators or the disk 
reading programs, but I wouldn't recommend writing to them using a 1.2mb 
drive.

You're much better off just using Drivewire to get disk images and files to 
and from the Coco.

I mount the disk images in an emulator to move files on an off the images 
and then use DW4 to put the images on a real floppy or from a real floppy on 
my Coco3.

I also built a 486 out of spare parts I had lying around and run the 
Vavasour emulator on it to make disk images and copy disks.

You can find cheap 486/486 systems on eBay all the time, and it's worth 
having one just for this reason. But, try to get one with a 360k floppy 
drive, or buy a 360k drive on eBay.

-[ Al ]-



-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Brant

I recently aquired an XP desktop and have a 1.2 mb 5.25 in floppy drive in
it.  Are there any programs for reading and writing either RSDOS or
OS9/NITROS9 disks?
Thanks,
Mike

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