[Coco] Software testing for FDC emulator

[Arthur Flexser]

One thing I'm not clear on about the FDC emulator:

Is this something that reads a real protected CoCo floppy under a CoCo
emulator running on a Windows machine that has a floppy drive?  Or has the
CoCo floppy been somehow transformed into a data file that mimics
its nonstandard track structure, and that is what the FDC emulator uses as
its input?  If the latter, how was the transformation accomplished?

Art
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Everyone already knows that these virtual drive systems don't fully
> emulate
> > the floppy controller hardware but what the average user accomplishes
> with
>
> This is the point I'm trying to make.. everyone does not know.  It's
> only when they go to play that favorite game from years past and
> discover it doesn't work that they come to realize this.  After
> helping people who've run into this very issue (and feeling bad for
> them but not being able to do anything), I think it's our
> responsibility to make it very clear that there are some limitations
> with these types of systems.  When we say things like "behaves just
> like the FDC" it is easy to see how a user can be confused.
>
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