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

[John E. Malmberg]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> I need to research and see if it's possible somehow to do these things 
> under XP and 2000.  It's obviously the operating system and not the 
> hardware.

I have a binary of a program that does COCO file transfers under MS-DOS 
3.x vintage.

A test on Windows NT 4.0 revealed that from a non-privileged user 
account it could read COCO disks.  This should have the same protection 
as XP and 2000.

What did not work was the MS-DOS file system calls.

So using the documented BIOS calls from the Microsoft C library should 
work to access a previously formatted COCO disk.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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