[Coco] Crunch?

[Paul Fitch]

I don't think you have anything to fix either, since its not broken.  Of
course, I always assumed that a .DSK or .OS9 image was an actual virtual
COPY of a real disk in all respects.  

 


> -----Original Message-----

> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 

> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Stephen H. Fischer

> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:10 PM

> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Crunch?

> 

> Hi,

> 

> Another CoCoer who is glad you are still with us.!!

> 

> 

> I must decline to honor your request for personal reasons.

> 

> And,

> 

> after much thought I have come to the conclusion that it is 

> best to not address this problem.

> 

> It is far better that if someone uses VCC that they see this 

> problem right away when all that is on the "dsk" are files 

> elsewhere in the zip or recreated by a simple test run of the 

> preprocessor.

> 

> I believe that this problem can occur anytime when files are 

> imported, created, deleted and so on.

> 

> Losing the users files would be far worse, with the existing 

> triggering "dsk" file they must either fix the problem 

> themselves or ask for help.

> 

> In either case they would be forewarned.

> 

> As the target user base for Urbane are experienced advanced 

> DECB persons, this should not be a problem.

> 

> Persons who like me who have written several long DECB 

> programs and have become frustrated, angry, bitter towards 

> anyone involved in the creation of any line numbered required Basic.

> 

> Urbane was the result when I attempted to merge four similar 

> short DECB programs into one medium length one so the four 

> displays could be on the screen at the same time.

> 

> I gave up and several days later the FLEX Basic Preprocessor 

> popped up in my head as the solution.

> 

> http://www.flexusergroup.com/flexusergroup/pdfs/basprec.pdf

> 

> I did very little with my first 6809 system but I purchased 

> FLEX, Basic and the Basic Preprocessor. (SYM-1 Based)

> 

> The date on the PDF is 1979.

> 

> I understand why I did not create Urbane for DECB before but 

> I do not understand why someone else did not. In my mind 

> publishing Urbane in Rainbow and on Rainbow on Disk would 

> have had a huge effect then.

> 

> 

> Having a fully functional first version of Urbane really made 

> the project doable.

> 

> SHF

> 

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 4:42 PM

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Crunch?

> 

> 

> > At 04:03 PM 5/31/2009, you wrote:

> >>Stephen, I downloaded the zip file on COCO3.com, and I think the

> >>Urbane.dsk

> >>file is currupted? Its certianly smaller than my other .DSK 

> files. It

> >>shows

> >>only 126k when all the others are 158K. VCC won't let me 

> load it into the

> >>"disk drive".

> >

> > I just checked and my local copy of the .dsk file is also 

> 126k. Maybe the

> > author will e-mail me another copy so I can replace it.

> >

> > -- 

> > Roger Taylor

> 

> 

> 

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