[Coco] DSK serial transfer utility?

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jul 29 22:29:59 EDT 2004


James Dessart wrote:

> Is there a utility on the CoCo that lets you write out a DSK image, coming
> in from the serial port, to a disk?
> 
> If not, I'm going to write one. :)
> 
> James
> 
> 
In theory, you could write an ml program for Disk Basic that received 
256 bytes from the RS-232 port and then did a DSKO$ to a disk. Either 
the sending or receiving programs would need to unscramble the double 
side interleave of tracks.

It would be much easier using an OS-9 hard drive system because the 
entire image could be transfered and an OS-9 program could write out the 
disk sector by sector or track by track.

Far as I know, there are no freeware programs for this purpose. There 
may be the equivalent of DSKINI.EXE or OS9.EXE (PC programs) for the MAC.




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