[Coco] Read coco disks on a PC

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Mar 16 02:20:54 EDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net> wrote:
> I did an experiment a few years back and discovered that the COCO BASIC disk
> read/write routines could read/write sectors on MS-DOS formatted 512 byte
> double density disks.
>
> So the question is:  Who will be the first person to write a DISK Basic
> program to display the root directory of an MS-DOS formatted floppy.
>

Didn't Marty Goodman publish a program in Rainbow back in the late 80s
or so that did exactly that?  I think it was called MS2CC or PC2CC or
something like that.  I believe the same article also presented the
first program that could read CoCo disks on a PC.

Art



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