[Coco] Rusty ole FD-501

[Stephen H. Fischer]

John's files on RTSI are different versions? I do see two CoCo3x.exe files and they are different but exact ally the difference needs a binary compare which I do not have handy. Dates are in 2015? What is doing the unzipping is messing with the dates. W7, say it is not true that you are doing this. 

IZArc says 2/17/2004 and 11/28/2003 so the CoCo3x.exe have different dates.

Just one Retrieve.exe and one Dskini.exe.

We need to be more careful with what we are saying, I keep reading things that make me wonder what is being said.

> PC drive's 2nd head was slightly out of alignment 

Been there, done that. I homemade a SYM-1 system and got FLEX09 running with two (2) drives with heads out of alignment. (Single sided.)

(Anyone see what is missing in that statement? One more thing should jump out.)

If John's Retrieve.exe is not what you are trying to use, please do not say more. I know that Jeff's original Retrieve. exe did have the second side option. How else did I read all my double sided DECB disks. John had not started at that point in time.
 
> P.s. I will try looking for Johns source on maltedmedia later..maybe something useful will turn up

Perhaps Bill can report on what he has of John's emulator. I cannot take the time now to look for what I was using of John's emulator.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501


> Those 3 RTSI links I saw the other day got me the older v1.3 and the current release.  But the 1.3 won't even do the second sidecar all..not a option.
> 
> A thought kept recurring in my mind that maybe there was a explanation in head alignment...and if the PC drive's 2nd head was slightly out of alignment then maybe the DSKINI utility was making it readable to itself (I.e. RETRIEVE) because of that.  But tonight I swapped drives on both sides and also the same behavior has existed on the 5.25" drives.  It has to be in the software somehow.
> 
> My Windows 98 tower also has a failing 6GB hard drive so im trying to back it up before I swap it out with a spare 40gb.   Funny how the boot HDD just keeps on ticking though @ 640MB.
> 
> What I would really like to see is a way to put one of my spare Iomega Zip 100 drives in a FD-500 enclosure or something...100mb disk cartridges.  Unfortunately they are IDE interface not floppy.
> 
> I've got wayyyyy toooo much 80s - 90s storage media around.  I still have dozens of QIC80 tapes packed with old DOS / Windows 3.1 applications and games.  The parallel port Trakker drive for them still runs great.
> 
> Sent from my Transformer Infinity
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:35 PM
> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>,CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> Did you miss the three links to RTSI posted? maltedmedia????
> 
> He has already said the the source has changed so much between Jeff's version to John's version that a comparison cannot be done easily, if at all.
> 
> The source files are included but some of what John was working on when he left in a huff is not included and wanted.
> 
> I think the messages to search in for John's posts are on the external hard drive I last used a year ago.
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rusty ole FD-501
> 
> 
>>
>> The easiest way to find out what John did to the emulator is to compare his sources to Jeff's sources.
>> Jeff's version is on his site. John's version is in maltedmedia and kinda hard to find (buried in a zip somewhere) But I have the source files.
>> I ran John's version of the Coco 3 emulator from the time he released it up until Joseph got Vcc 1.41 semi-stable. John's 6309 emulator was what I was running NitrOS9 L3 on after I found Alan's site. About that same time I moved to WinXP and couldn't run Jeff/John's emulator any more without a VBox and went to VCC 1.41 which still had some problems so I tried Mess. Mess was going through some changes and got screwed up (and still is) about the same time Joseph got Vcc 1.42 released, so I switched and that's where I stayed.
>>
>>
>> Jeff's Coco3 Emulator -1994 - 2001
>> John's 6309+ enhancements - 2003 (from the source dates)
>>
>>
>> Bill Pierce
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