[Coco] Q: Convert TW64 BIN to PC TXT?

[Torsten Dittel]

> Is the problem that you don't have a copy of TW-64 anymore?  Because I'm
> pretty sure you can export it to a plain text file from within TW-64,
> either on the CoCo or in an emulator.  Not sure how your German
> characters would translate to ASCII though.  But if they showed up in
> some form, you could likely just grep them to something useful.
> [Digging around in the attic for my TW-64 documentation...]
> 
> There was a separate I/O utility called S.ASC that allowed plain ASCII
> disk file reads and writes.


Cool, thanks, I'll try it out. I found a disk with the contents:

U        BAS 0 B 1
TW64     BIN 2 B 5
F            2 B 2
S        XXX 0 B 2
S        BIN 0 B 2
S        ASC 0 B 2
Z        BIN 2 B 1

I'll try that on an emulator.

Regards,
Torsten