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

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:57 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

I dunno.  XP is unlike all the others in certain ways.  They did away with 
the true MS-DOS mode.


>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.

thanks for the info