[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I know that this is NOT the answer but FHL "O-PAK" has utilities for reading 
FLEX disks under OS-9 (L-I).

But I remember being able to only read the files and not all of my disks 
were readable due to date when written (Way too old). Track 0 not possible 
AFAIK.

So, in worse case, disassemble the OS-9 utility and build a new utility to 
write a file on the CoCo containing the entire disk handling the Track 0 
single-density and the rest of the disk double-density.

There is a lot of chatter on the FLEX9 (apple2 based) FLEX9 at yahoogroups.com 
about a similar problem right now.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex


> Hi all,
>
> I have unearthed a disk here of FLEX 3.3. It *does* work on the Coco3; I 
> booted it, and typed "cat" and got a file listing.
>
> However... It is as I suspected, track 0 of the disk is not a standard 
> format (probably single-density); it returns I/O error when I try to read 
> it.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to image such a disk?
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Luis Fernández" <luis46coco at hotmail.com>
> To: "COCO" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 1:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
>
>
>> What is the link for the version 5.0:4​​?
>> another thing
>> vcc tried, and if I started but the keyboard will not let me pass the 
>> date
>> while entering a number, writes 01234567
>> I tried everything but does not improve
>> CONCLUSION The FLEX version 5.0:2, and 5.0:3 operate at VCC (Coco3) but 
>> not the keyboard.
>> will try with another DECB
>>
>>> From: computerdoc at sc.rr.com
>>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 07:22:53 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
>>>
>>> The FHL Color Flex Complete Manual refers to a 5.0:4 version.  Does 
>>> anyone
>>> have this version?
>>> Is there an OCR version of this manual?  Searching this pdf version is
>>> impossible.  Thumbing through all the pages to find a particular piece 
>>> of
>>> information is the only way to find anything.
>>> Kip