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

[john donaldson]

  John's will format and transfer under window 98 and ME.
It will only format under XP ro 2000.

John Donaldson


On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:07:23 -0600
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 02:49 PM 11/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>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
>
>
>Jeff's dskini.exe program copies a .dsk file to a real 
>CoCo disk, am I correct?  I was hoping that John's 
>version did the same.
>However, I have tried Jeff's under XP and it will not 
>work.  The drives lock up or aren't recognized, or 
>something to that degree.
>
>Maybe the BIOS has these routines in it that would let a 
>program bypass Windows XP's constraints on the older 
>floppy drives?
>
>Geez, this is all my IDE needs to put the cherry on the 
>cake (besides an EPROM programmer, ready to go)... is the 
>ability to call on a dskini.exe or os9tools.exe type 
>utility to make a real CoCo floppy of your software.
>
>
>What versions of Windows supports Jeff's dskini.exe 
>utility?
>
>
>
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