[Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

ADOS afaik still is 18 sectors per track, unless you change that.

Those emulators are locked on 512 byte sectors and won't accept anything
than that.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

> If you used ADOS and setup the drives to be 720k (80 track, double sided)
> - I'm sure it would work that way.
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Hermanek
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 2:17 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator
>
> I played around with a China (affordable) emulator and verified, as
> expected, that although they work fine in a PC with 720 or 1440 images,
> they do not work in the coco.  The cheaper emulators are not
> configurable in any way, and always expect 80 tracks, 9 or 18 sectors
> per track, 512 byte sectors.  I was hoping against hope that with coco
> being 35 tracks, 18 sectors, that the emulator would live with it, but I
> think the 256 vs 512 byte sectors was a deal breaker.
>
> -RobertH
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