[Coco] dskini and retrieve

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 08 November 2008, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

>> I'm having a mess of a time trying to get both retrieve.exe and dskini.exe

>> to work on my old Win98 PC.

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>> Is there any kind of MS-DOS or Windows 98 tool out there works better than

>> these Vavasour tools?

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>> --

>> Roger Taylor

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>I recall that problem, but I'm having difficulty ATM remembering what the

>solution was.

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>1); the window is closed to write a 3.5 disk.

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>2): the 1.44, 3.5" BIOS setting should work.  The crossed up setting, was

>using the 720 setting for a 360 drive.

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>Do I recall that some 3.5" drives could not work at the slower speeds?

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>I don't know of any programs for reading CoCo disks to DSK files yet. Please

>let me know if you do find any.

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>Bruce W.


If a DSK file is a pure image of the disk, then the linux dd utility can do 
exactly that.

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