[Coco] lets play canyon climber from floppy disk ( 8 inch floppy disk)

[Wayne Campbell]

Is there a way to build a converter that would allow the controller to
communicate with the disc spinning at the faster speed?

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 6:54 AM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I just slowed the drive down to 300rpm from the original 360rpm. The coco
> and the HDS controller really doesn't care what drive is on the end of the
> ribbon cable as long as it's spinning at 300 rpm. The down fall is that I
> am getting less DATA on the 8inch disks as opposed to the 5 1/4s
>
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> From: Sean
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] lets play canyon climber from floppy disk ( 8 inch
> floppy disk)
>
>
> How is the 8" floppy drive talking to the CoCo?  I thought those drives
> were way different than a 5 1/4" and not compatible?   I think I can see
> you have some sort of device in between the disk controller and drive.
>
> Very cool though!
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:55 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn1ldeK6d94
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