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

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Wed Nov 5 00:22:00 EST 2003


FWIW, the trick under MSDOS is to alter a table of parameters kept in
ram on the PC. This lets the PC read Coco sectors. The program deals
with the result. Also, AnaDisk from Sybex can read most any
reasonable format the hardware can handle.

NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>

...
> 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.
...


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