[Coco] CoCo disks and XP

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Torsten,

This is potentially a gold-mine find for those who use Windows XP.   
That platform has been plagued with problems when it comes to using  
DSKINI/RETRIEVE, and this could be the answer.

I don't have a Windows system here to try it out on.  Can anyone  
verify whether it works?  A good test would be to take the NitrOS-9  
disk images up on www.nitros9.org and try to make a bootable disk.

Boisy

On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:51 AM, Torsten Dittel wrote:


> I already mentioned this once here but had no time to play around with

> it so far or make some tests for myself. There's an interesting  

> software

> here:

>

> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

>

> which claims to read, write and format CoCo disks from within XP. It

> comes with a new driver allowing native control of the floppy

> controller.

>

> Is there any use for those tools (OmniFlop or OmniDiskXP)  

> concerning the

> emulators?

>

> Is there any chance to get the 16 Bit DOS emulators and/or their tools

> for file access running within XP using the new driver?

>

> If this tool is able to read and create RAW disk images, couldn't  

> those

> be used for the emulators?

>

> Maybe someone here could play around with it and figure out if it's

> useful.

>

> Torsten

>

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