[Coco] [Color Computer] Anadisk and CP/M

[Mark McDougall]

shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:

> And the CocCo definitely didn't run CP/M. For that matter, what makes 
> you thinkl the disks *are* CP/M disks? There were a lot of OSes for 
> those boxes and CP/M *wasn't* the most popular.

If they _do_ happen to be CP/M disks, try to find a copy of Hypercross -
PC-based software that reads quite a few different CP/M formats.

There's also a few TRS-80 emulators that will read real TRS-80 disks, like
xtrs (or does that require a CatWeasel?) and (IIRC) Matthew Reid's emulator.

> Given that a lot of word procesor files, especially back then, will 
> look like gibberish if you don't access them via the correct program, 
> you are going to need a TRS-80 emulator of some sort to really check 
> the disks. A Genie emulator (if there is one) would be better.

Yes, it's quite likely that simply dumping the disks sector-by-sector
won't give anything useful. Particularly for a highly-fragmented disk.

Regards,

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