[Coco] Vcc and real floppy disks

[Joe F]

Darren just saw your post,
your right fdrawcmd lets you pick the side of the disk, right now I'm just
forwarding the side select from the WD1773 chip so if you have an os like
OS9 or a DECB that been modified to use the second side that should
definitely work. I just never thought of over-riding that so standard BASIC
would work like that.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Joe F <joef6809 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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