[Coco] OS-9 Floppy

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun Mar 17 18:09:55 EDT 2013


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:12:25PM -0500, Melanie and John Mark Mobley wrote:
> Can I write a DECB (Disk Extended Color BASIC) file to an OS-9 disk without
> disturbing the OS-9 portion of the disk?

>From OS-9, yes, using the rsdos utility.  From BASIC? I *think*
there's a program to do that, at least on 35-track ss disks.

These are 2 completely different filesystems.  If you know enough to
build your own hybrid disks then you can probably do it.

> EX 1:
> 
>   DECB
> 
>   SAVE "L.BAS"

Instant scrambled disk.
> 
>  
> 
> EX 2:
> 
>   Toolshed DECB
> 
>   DECB COPY C:\README.TXT OS9L2WINNY1.dsk,README.TXT

Instant scrambled virtual disk.

Willard
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