[Coco] FHL Color Flex

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Thanks, but because I have used up my FLEXable time, I do not wish to
proceed.

It is starting to sound like to me that without special disk read / write
code that Color FLEX cannot be run in a CoCo emulator.

And, "188AA_02.DSK" cannot be written to a real floppy to run on a real
CoCo.

I got the CoCo2 Emulator (Jeffs) to start  "188AA_02.DSK" but it will not
accept the date. (Type 4 and get something like 1234567890 back.)

Time to go back to a more useful discussion, OS-9.

If I have any need, (And that was back in Urbane time) I would use an FLEX
emulator.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luis Fernández" <luis46coco at hotmail.com>
To: "COCO" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex


>
>
> these discs were repaired
> http://www.evenson-consulting.com/swtpc/downloads/RepairedDskFilesFromFUFU.zip
> but are identical to normal (at least F502 and F503)
>
>
>> From: luis46coco at hotmail.com
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 22:01:15 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
>>
>> The disk MASTR503.DSK or F503MSA.DSK have 18 sector in track 0 (MIXED
>> FORMAT FLEX AND DECB) (Size 156672 &h263ff just no TRACK DOS BOOT ) BOOT
>> in track 33
>> The disk  188AA_02.DSK is DECB (Size ok 161280) (Boot in &h26300 and not
>> in &h26400) 34*18*256
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> > From: SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
>> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:47:42 -0700
>> > Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Bob, my bad, and I had the manual right in my hand a second before.
>> > Print
>> > too small for my new eyes.
>> >
>> > Darren, OS-9 disks have the density in the .dsk file, but the utilities
>> > do
>> > not use it AFAIK.
>> >
>> > I have been trying to determine if Track 0 single-density has a
>> > different
>> > number of sectors, so far TSC in their FLEX manuals says 10 and 10 for
>> > the
>> > double-density tracks.
>> >
>> > FLEX is the only OS to do this different track 0 AFAIK.
>> >
>> > If that is true, then a .dsk would not be any different if all tracks
>> > were
>> > double-density including track 0.
>> >
>> > But then why are we having problems with "188AA_02.DSK"?
>> >
>> > Luis, can you extract: "DRIVE is 0, TRACK is 16, and sector is 9"?
>> >
>> > A hex dump cannot be disassembled but someone with experience might be
>> > able
>> > to read the hex and understand it.
>> >
>> > I could do that ~ 1970 for Super Computer PP code.
>> >
>> > SHF
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
>> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 6:10 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Coco] FHL Color Flex
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Bob Devries wrote:
>> > >> 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?
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Tim Lindner has shown how to patch Basic so that DSKI$ can be used to
>> > > read single density sectors:
>> > >
>> > > <http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=250>
>> > >
>> > > This may at least allow you to extract the information from the disk.
>> > > Making an image using the data would likely be more complicated
>> > > (maybe needing to edit a DMK file by hand in a hex editor).
>> > >
>> > > Next question: Do any of the emulators support single density tracks
>> > > in a DMK file?
>> > >
>> > > Darren