[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Help for transfering Coco disk to PC

[Sylvain De Chantal]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Gene Heskett 

Hummm...so we can transfer Coco disks to the PC but with 
Win98 or MS-DOS. So that was my problem since i'm only
using WinXP. I'll install Win98 later this week and test
that out since i've just finished doing a cable connector
(thanks to Pierre for the pinouts he posted here) for my 
Tandy CM-4 monitor (not the CM-8). The only missing was a
sound jack since the CM-4 doesn't have any speakers built-in
so that's what i did, connected Pin #2 and Pin #7 to an audio
jack 1/8 and plugged my PC speakers and now i have sounds. :)

Just to know, is there any other differences between the CM-4 
and CM-8 apart the sound ? 

--- Sly DC ---





<gene.heskett at v...> wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 22:33, Neil Morrison wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at v...>
> >
> >> Coco's disks are not going to be readable in a 1.2 meg drive, the
> >> spindle speed is wrong for starters.  The heads are too narrow 
for
> >> problem B, and problem C is the data rate.
> >
> >No, it works fine. But anything past Win98 and you will be screwed
> > IME. MS-DOS is what you need. On a few occasions, I've needed to
> > format a floppy on the PC and copy files to it from a Coco disk.
> > You get errors on all sector zeros because the Coco index hole to
> > sector 0 gap is too short.
> >
> >Neil
> 
> I've seen that error on the coco itself Neil.  But funny thing 
> happened, the next version of ccdisk I installed fixed it and I've 
> never seen it again.  Sheesh, that was a long way back up the log 
> though.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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