[Coco] ORC-90

[Diego Barizo]

On 1/3/2022 21:53, Robert Gault wrote:
I seem to remember that the disk format is not the same for ORC-90 and 
BASIC, so you will need to put the files in a disk formatted from 
ORC-90. But.. I don't think you can do it from BASIC or any of the tools 
available from a PC

Can someone confirm that the disk format is different?

Diego
> I suggest you compare the music file you saved to disk vrs one of the files that don't work. The orc90 music files at colorcomputerarchive.com can be read via a normal PC which means each line ends with $0D, $0A. The CoCo typically just uses $0D for the end of a line of text.
> Where did you get the music files that don't work? How did you put them on a disk? If you are converting disk images on a PC to real floppies to use with a real CoCo, how did you create the hardware floppy?
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>    On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:03 PM, coco at jechar.ca<coco at jechar.ca> wrote:   All
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> I have some ORC-90 files they seem to be text files but just putting
> them on an RS-DOS disk does not do any good the ORC-90 cannot read them.
> How do I convert them into something the ORC-90 can use I know it can
> access a disk as I have been able to save and reload the built in sample
> William Tell Overture it does not seem to be a text file.
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> Thanks
> Charlie
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