[Coco] using .bas files with disk images

[L. Curtis Boyle]

It has been a long time since I put those files up, but I believe they were straight exports of the tokenized programs from Jeff Vavasour's Coco emulator disk utility (if that helps).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a bit lost on what the proper procedure for getting .bas files
> like the ones here:
> 
> http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/chawkfootball.html
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/chopperrescue.html
> 
> into a disk image that can be used with mess, vcc, drivewire etc.
> 
> I noticed they are tagged with "Please note: This is a tokenized BASIC program."
> Is that telling me what to do, and I just don't grok it?
> 
> I've tried MESS's wimgtool and the file2dsk utility.. both can
> generate disks that contain the file in a variety of ways, but I
> haven't found any combination of settings that generates something I
> can load and run.
> 
> The closest to right seems to be specifying type 0 (basic) and
> binary.. but that gives a file that when loaded and listed is full of
> nonsense, as if the tokens were all wrong.  Tends to lock up the coco
> if you list more than a few lines of the craziness.
> 
> Other combinations generate files that error on load or load but seem
> to contain nothing.
> 
> What am I missing?
> Thanks
> -Aaron
> 
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