[Coco] Help - CoCo emulator disk image formats...???
Robert Gault
robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jul 15 17:05:28 EDT 2006
Bert & Peggy Schneider wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I'm running Windows XP Home Edition 5.2.2600 on an HP computer with 512
> Meg of RAM
>
> Here are the steps I'm taking when I use OmniFlop:
>
> 1. I'm using OmniFlop v2.01g and I have turned off my anti-virus
> software
> 2. I use the format command within OmniFlop to format a 3.5" floppy
> 3. I select the "35/1/18x256 (Tandy CoCo RSDOS single-sided 48TPI) 157.5
> KB" format
> 4. OmniFlop does a complete format with out any problems (or I can
> format the floppy on my CoCO 3 with a 3/5" drive without any problems)
> 5. I then select "Write Disk" from OmniFlop
> 6. Next, a window comes up with "Select a format to write this disk
> with:" and the only option is "Unknown uniform custom format", which I
> select
> 7. Next I select the "MESS DSK format (*.dsk)"
> 8. Next I select a *dsk file from my PC hard drive
> 9. I select "FINNISH" and the computer goes off to copy the files - and
> writes for a while
> 10. Then an error window comes up with the following message:
>
Simple to fix. Change step 3 from 48TPI to 96TPI
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