[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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