[Coco] DSK image utilities?

[Bill Pierce]

Allen,
Since I run Windows, I usually just create my disks in Vcc. With Vcc, you can create the disks in "JVC", "DMK", and "VDK" formats. All you have to do is go to the disk insert menu and input a new name with the ".dsk" extension. You will then be prompted for the disk format (above) and the number of tracks/sides.
 To get files on the disk, I use the "WimgTool" that came with older versions of M.E.S.S. Someone here did a mod to the utility to fix using OS-9 directories on the disk. So both OS-9 and RSDOS files can be added and deleted to/from the disk. In OS-9, you can add complete directories in one operation. There's still a bug or two but for the most part, it works.
Here's a link to newer "WimgTool.exe" as it's not in the current M.E.S.S. distributions. (or any old ones)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23059963/Stuff/wimgtool.exe


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 12:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] DSK image utilities?


On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:39 AM, David Ladd <drencor at gamepixel.net> wrote:
> So far most of my disk images I am creating using some of the tools from
> the ToolShed Project.

I looked at that, but didn't get very far. I kept getting errors from the tool, 
so I have some learning to do.

> Other tools to read or write images from/to real floppies I am using
> CoCoDisk & fdrawcmd.sys driver.

What is CoCoDisk?

> You can also under linux use dd to create disk images.

I mean, if I have a .BAS file or a .BIN, and I want to get it in to an emulator, 
how would I go about doing that? Xroar can create a blank disk image on the fly, 
but I do not know how to put files on the image. It seems back in the days of 
the Jeff V CoCo emulators (DOS!) we had tools that did this.

Is someone working on this? If not, it would be nice to have some portable 
version -- maybe straight ANSI-C code that could compile on anything. Java is 
also an option, since we rely on it for DriveWire, but with Java getting booted 
off the desktop for security concerns, I wonder if it's a long term solution.

Oh. I think I need to dust off my EthaGUI stuff and update my Towel disk utility 
so it can run on modern machines and deal with .DSK files :-)

		-- Allen

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