[Coco] Converting DSK files

[John Eric]

I have been using the OmniFlop utility and have yet to have a disk my coco couldn't read. You have to select the double step option if your PC has a 1.2m floppy (or the obscure 720k 5.25 floppy), and single step if your pc has the 360k 5.25 floppy. If you are using a 1.2m floppy in the pc and a disk starts giving you trouble, a degausser to completely erase the thing usually fixes it to where an omniflop write can make it work on the coco again (this has to do with track width being half that of a 360k floppy and if the coco writes to the disk and then omniflop tries to write to it, it may then not be coco readable, so degauss and do again and it should work - i'm not too good at explaining this.. sorry. Perhaps others can clarify what I am trying to say) JE 




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From: George Ramsower <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 7:04:27 PM
Subject: [Coco]  Converting DSK files

A couple of years ago, I tried the various things or maybe one... I don't remember.. from this PC W-XP SP2. I never could get a coco disk to work on a coco.

I don't remember the details of what I was doing or how I did it.

Is there a new, improved way of doing this today? I think I'd like to try some of the DSK stuff that is available now.

George 

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