The CocoSDC also supports larger .VHD images (virtual hard drives), commonly used with things like the OS9 or NitrOS9 operating systems, or HDBDOS partitions, etc. There is far more disk image software on the Color Computer Archive than there is on the Internet archive as well, and even a special CocoSDC ZIP that gets updated every few months with everything that is on the archive. You are correct in that DSK images are much simpler. The SDF's are meant to contain all the low level sector data (header bytes, padding bytes, sector CRC's, sector/track identifiers, etc) to handle things like copy protected disk images. The FN error (File Name error) - you are correct, it has a limit of 8.3 file naming (same as real floppies and earlier MSDOS). The machine lockup - that's definitely not normal, so there must be hardware issue somewheres. Couple of shortcuts for you: You don't need the closing quotes on SAVE, LOAD, DRIVE, etc. commands. If you want to run a BASIC program, you can use RUN "filename" instead of doing LOAD followed by RUN. (and LOADM/SAVEM assume .BIN so you can skip those too, as does LOAD/RUN/SAVE assume .BAS). Great video, glad you got everything working! (Except the weird freezing, of course).
Thanks so much! I got that zip file from the archive. There are still a lot of cool things to experiment with. I'd like to try the cart image features and the virtual hard drive as well. I'll revisit this when time allows.
The CocoSDC also supports larger .VHD images (virtual hard drives), commonly used with things like the OS9 or NitrOS9 operating systems, or HDBDOS partitions, etc. There is far more disk image software on the Color Computer Archive than there is on the Internet archive as well, and even a special CocoSDC ZIP that gets updated every few months with everything that is on the archive. You are correct in that DSK images are much simpler. The SDF's are meant to contain all the low level sector data (header bytes, padding bytes, sector CRC's, sector/track identifiers, etc) to handle things like copy protected disk images. The FN error (File Name error) - you are correct, it has a limit of 8.3 file naming (same as real floppies and earlier MSDOS). The machine lockup - that's definitely not normal, so there must be hardware issue somewheres. Couple of shortcuts for you: You don't need the closing quotes on SAVE, LOAD, DRIVE, etc. commands. If you want to run a BASIC program, you can use RUN "filename" instead of doing LOAD followed by RUN. (and LOADM/SAVEM assume .BIN so you can skip those too, as does LOAD/RUN/SAVE assume .BAS). Great video, glad you got everything working! (Except the weird freezing, of course).
Thanks so much! I got that zip file from the archive. There are still a lot of cool things to experiment with. I'd like to try the cart image features and the virtual hard drive as well. I'll revisit this when time allows.