[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] From virtual disk to real disk

John Donaldson jadonaldson at charter.net
Sun Nov 2 14:52:01 EST 2003


Roger,
    John's Diskini.exe does work under XP, except it will not transfer 
the .dsk file to the
dislettte. It will make a blank coco OS9 diskettte.

John Donaldson


Roger Taylor wrote:

> I think the stock dskini.exe utility by Jeff uses SS35 images only.  
> I'm not totally sure of this.
>
> John Collyer has modified this utility and supposedly fixed some 
> bugs.  I use Windows XP so there is no true DOS mode, and I have to 
> boot into a Windows 98 startup disk in order to use the dskini.exe 
> anyway.  I'm not sure if Boisy's os9tools system will write out DECB 
> floppies, but it writes OS9 disks.
>
>
>
>
> At 08:04 AM 10/28/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know if there are other methods of formatting a real disk
>> with the contents of a virtual disk other than the utility delivered
>> with Jeff Vavasour's CoCo emulator. I found it not to work equally
>> well with all disks, virtual or real....
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Fedor
>>
>>
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