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

[pat weedon]

Thank you for that. The disks are mostly for Genie III, though there were
actually two machines, the other being Genie I, however, since all I want is
to check the disks for text, I think I am doing OK  using Anadisk and the
DUMP  option, which  lifts everything off ( I think). I did respond to
another post on the subject but it does not seem to have made it to the
board. Thanks, I think I am sorted now :)

-----Original Message-----
From: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com [mailto:ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Zagros Sadjadi
Sent: 31 August 2007 01:45
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Color Computer] Anadisk and CP/M

Actually, there was a Color Genie that was produced. It wasn't really
compatible with either the TRS-80 Model I/III/IV line or the CoCo line:
 
http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/hardware_eaca.htm
<http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/hardware_eaca.htm>
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9723/genie.html> 
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=128
<http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=128> 
 
If that is the model that is used, you need this emulator:
 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9723/genie.html
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/9723/genie.html> 
http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/emulation/mess/help.htm
<http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/emulation/mess/help.htm> 

For the Video Genie I/II emulator (TRS-80 compatible), see:
http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/emulators.htm
<http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/emulators.htm> 
 
But I think that he was probably using the Video Genie III, which came with
both NewDos-80 2.0 AND CP/M 2.2:
 
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=130
<http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=130> 
 
I'd try a Model IV emulator (since that machine also did CP/M) to see if
that would work and cross my fingers because I don't know of any emulator
for the Video Genie III.

shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:

	On 30 Aug 2007 at 17:04, pawzisme wrote:
	
	> Hello folks, I have joined the group purely to pick your brains as
	> help is not easy to find on this topic.
	> 
	> I have here a fairly large pile of 5.25" floppies most of which
	> were used in a Genie (TRS80). The guy who used them was into all
	> things computery and was also a writer. I say 'was' because he
died a
	> couple of years back. His wife has asked me to see if I can find
any
	> of his 'stuff' on these disks, and to that end I have an old 5.25
	> drive mounted in a fairly old computer, and am using anadisk to
	> explore each disk. I also have teledisk and disk22.
	
	While the CoCo (Color Computer) was a TRS-80, it's *not* the kind of

	TRS-80 that the Genie was a (semi)clone of.
	
	You want to check on groups for the TRS 80 Model I.
	
	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.
	
	> I am getting on ok with Anadisk, but I would like to know I am
	> searching each disk fully, and not just one sector. If I do a
Sector
	> - edit, and then let the arrow progress to the end of the disk,
with
	> my finger on F10 to read the next bit, am I actually covering
every
	> sector or only everything on one sector?
	
	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.
	
	--
	Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
	shadow at shadowgard dot com