[Coco] How to read CoCo floppies on PC?

[Robert Gault]

Walter,

The VCC emulator can be set to read real floppies on a Windows system if you have the following:
1) The host computer must be running Windows 2000,XP or Vista. Note I have only tested this on XP so 
far.
2) The host computer must have a supported Floppy disk controller chip, (μPD765a or equiv.). A USB 
floppy
drive will NOT do.
3) The FDRAWCMD driver must be loaded. These drivers were written by Simon Owen and can be downloaded
from his website here: http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
Download and run the fdinstall.exe file.

This is described in the "Welcome to Vcc 201.pdf" file and works with the 2.5" drive on my WinXP 
system. I don't know if it works with a 5.25" drive but probably ought to do so.

Robert

Walter Zambotti wrote:
> What will I require to do this?
>
> Is there a recommend pc floppy drive.
>
> I only need 40 track double sided.
>
> Is it possible to connect a fd-502 directly to a pc?
>
> Walter
>
> Sent from my Xperia by Sony smartphone
>