[Coco] Weird errors(DSK images.. NOT!!)

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:08:09 -0600, George's Coco Address  
<yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boisy Pitre"
>
>
>> After looking at the xmode.asm source and examining the compatibility  
>> issue that has plagued users of tmode, I am considering a different  
>> approach than the one I expressed in the email below.  Specifically,  I  
>> am considering resurrecting the old tmode/xmode utilities and  renaming  
>> the current "new syntax" tmode/xmode to some variant, such  as  
>> tmode2/xmode2 and including those as part of an enhanced utilities   
>> package that would also include things like bawk and other commands.    
>> This utility package would be downloadable as a separate disk image   
>> alongside NitrOS-9.
>
>
>  Since there is currently no way to put a DSK file into my coco and make  
> a disk... and it's impossible for me to do so on this XP box, how about  
> someone would develop a way to convert a DSK file to a disk on a coco?  
> It's quite easy for me to transfer the DSK file from this XP box to my  
> coco via the RS232 port. Been transferring stuff since W-95.
>
>  It's odd that someone hasn't built an application to create a DISK from  
> a DSK image on a coco, or at least get the files out of it. After all,  
> it's all about the coco!!!, by golly.

     If it's OS-9, I have a BASIC09 program on my webpage will do it  
(http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html, click on the "OS9 DSK  
Converter" link. It requires the DMODE command present as well, but I used  
to transfer DSK images to real disks quite a bit when I had my TC-9 setup  
still running. The program's default setup is for a 35 track single sided  
disk, but the webpage explains how to quickly change that to a 40 track  
image as well (and feel free to go beyond that...)

> George

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L. Curtis Boyle