[Coco] GreaseWeazle

[David Ladd]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:10 PM Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Has anyone tried to use the relatively new GreaseWeazle to make archive
> copies of older CoCo disks?  This hardware is fairly inexpensive, and is
> available for Linux, Mac and Win machines.
>

Yes, you can use the Greaseweazle to read in real floppy disks to archive
in a more modern disk image format.  The file format it uses is a .SCP,
which can be converted using software, for example the HxCFloppy Emulator
tools, but like anything you should verify the backups work as intended.

I have used the Greaseweazle Project to read and write real floppy disks.
I have read a floppy disk using the Greaseweazle to the .SCP file format,
then using the HxCFloppyEmulator software I then converted that disk image
to a .MFM so I could use it in MAME.

After doing what ever I needed to do using it with MAME I was then able to
convert the disk image back to an .SCP then write that out to a new real
floppy disk using the Greaseweazle.

The only real requirement though is you have to have working floppy drives
:D which for some is the biggest problems these days. :)

For anyone who does not know about this project you can check it out at:
https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki/Greaseweazle-Models



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Sincerely,
David Ladd
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