[Coco] Vcc and real floppy disks

[Joe F]

Yup, I can do that.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
> wrote:

>  Joe F wrote:
>
>> Just thought I'd let everyone know that I finally got an XP machine with a
>> real 5.25'' 360K  drive set up and am planning to improve floppy support.
>> So
>> if anyone has/ is having problems with real floppy disks under Vcc now
>> would
>> be the time to let me know. On that note is there anywhere I can look that
>> would describe the types of copy protection that where used back then? for
>> example Iron forest had one track that didn't really have a format but did
>> contain data that the program would read and verify somehow.
>> Thanks.
>> BTW I'm still trying to collect MM1 info/ thanks to everyone thats pointed
>> me in the right direction so far.
>>
>>
> The main problem with VCC and real floppy disks is the inability to select
> the front or back side (ie change heads) when a disk has been used on the
> Coco as two singles rather than a double. While this may be a function of
> fdrawcmd.sys rather than VCC it is annoying.
>
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