[Coco] Need utility to read Flex-09 floppies.

[John E. Malmberg]

Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It may not be of help, but I have the Flex "Adaptation Guide" manual for
> "Unknown" computers.
> 
> I.E. You build a floppy disk controller and then write the bootstrap code
> using an example in the manual. A short and very simple boot loader used
> only to get started.

I am suspecting that for the Flex+ disk that I have, there is a similar 
solution.

It is a dual format disk.

The disk shows up from Disk Basic with one file named "FLEX+" that does 
the bootstrap.

Either that file must be used instead of the track 0, or it has a loader 
for track 0 on it.

If the this boot method does use track 0, it may not be important to 
have it's contents to get a boot to work.  Otherwise, it gives me a 
program that knows how to read a sector of that track from BASIC.

I Can modify that to copy the track separately to a BASIC disk and then 
copy that file to the PC.

I then can reconstitute it, and then see what it will take to get an 
emulator to read it.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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