[Coco] CoCo SDC board arrived and RGB to VGA converters

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 14:40:39 EST 2014


The MSDOS 8.3 doesn't support white spaces in the name. The DECB does.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Bill Loguidice wrote:
>
>> My CoCoSDC arrived yesterday to and I actually was able to set it up and
>> run some images. Big shocker for me as I usually don't get a chance to do
>> that until months after I get something.
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
>
>> The unfortunate limitation is that it only supports
>> the 8.3 file naming system and can't see filenames with spaces in them.
>> That means that some pre-made archives will need some manually tweaking.
>>
>
> Bill, yes the 8.3 requirements can be a little annoying, but the micro
> controller I used has limited resources and it would be quite difficult to
> manage.
>
> I wasn't aware of a problem using file names with spaces. I will have to
> investigate that one.
>
> Darren
>
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