SpicyChronos

Hello All, I came into a collection of 192 floppy disks, many are flippy disks that have had a second write-protect notch and timing hole cut into many of them. I believe are for the Radio Shack - Tandy CoCo series of computers. I have created Kryoflux raw images of these disks. Hopefully these can be converted into images that can be used in emulators and real machines. All but three seems to be copies or possible typed-in programs. Each disk had on its sleeve a directory with a lot of .BAS or .BIN. The three that actually have Tandy labels are, Tandy-Color Computer 3-OS-9 Level Two-Zone Runner-Cat. No. 26-3286, Tandy-Color Computer-64K-Pegasus and the Phantom RIders-Cat. No. 26-3281-01.01.00 and Tandy-Color Computer-OS-9-DeskMate-Cat. No. 26-3259. These are on my shared Google drive under 12-FEB-2024. The zip file has been split up into 15 sections. "Possible-Tandy-CoCo-Floppy-Disk-Images.zip" to "zip.015"

I was a member of Layton Atari Computer Enthusiasts (LACE) and (EON) (I don't quite remember what the initials stood for, I want to say Eight-Bits Only, out of Roy) both in Utah.

@800XLNZ, You beat me to it. 😂 Thanks for typing it in. Regards, -Spicy

Hi @Allan, I'll upload my ATR I started with the two files. They are saved in LISTed format. I'll be able to upload later this evening. I made it Single Density, with DOS 2.5. Regards, -Spicy

Hey all, I'm attempting to type in the Plains of Salisbury from the PDF scan. If anyone else is trying to do it too, maybe we can collaborate on it? I know i've struggled a little bit on how they do the ATASCII characters, but I've also typed in the BUG-OUT listing, and will use that to check my work as I go along. -Spicy

@DjayBee, Here are two of the three disks redumped. I am having a hard time locating Disk 5219. Hopefully I'll find it soon. It's probably buried in a tote that I put away in my workshop. 4540-flippy.log 4540-flippy.zip 4584-flippy.log 4584-flippy.zip

Hi @DjayBee, I'll look for the disks and get some kryoflux dumps made. Do you need me to change any settings to try and get a better dump?? Should I try a 360K drive. I'll have to do some fenagling to read the second side, might have to do the cut the sleeve and flip over the media, and read again. Otherwise I have a 1.2M flippy drive. Regards,

@www.atarimania.com I have split the zip file into 16 parts and it is currently uploading to my shared folder. This should make it easier to download. It'll be named 1400-2999-2.zip.001 through 016.

Hi All, I'm uploading the latest batch. Look for a folder 16-DEC-2023 with a zip file of 1400-2999_.zip it's about 10G, so if anyone has problems downloading it, I'll split it up. Let me know if we find any goodies. Later!!

Hey, I'll check and see if I can redump the disks with a little more revolutions. I have been using 10, but I'll try 25 this time. It'll take a little longer to read the disk, but it might help with recovering weak sections of the disks. As for the Plains of Salisbury, I'll try locating the disk with the file. @www.atarimania.com do you remember the filename, before you renamed it? I'll search for PLAINS and see if I can find an ATR image I've made, and hopefully I'll be able to dump the disk again. BTW... I have several new ATRs and RAW disk images to upload to my shared drive. I found out that I mislabeled several disks with the same number. So all these will be changed to XXXX-flippy-2. or XXXXA-2.ATR, XXXXB-2.ATR. hopefully this doesn't confuse anyone. This batch seems to have had a lot of bit rot, just trying to make ATRs I got a lot of successful CRC retries, and some bad sectors. So with those I made a Kryoflux dump. Hopefully that will recover the data. I'll include all the log files from the dumps. I used APE software with 2 1050 US doubler drives modified with @Nezgar's rom patch. I set the re-try errors at 99 times. I'm using a Panasonic JU-475-4 modified to read flippy disks in one shot with Kryoflux, I can also use a Greaseweasel if I need to try and dump the disk in a different format, if that will help with anything. I'll see what I can post tonight. Enjoy!

It is on my Google Drive share. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tPZB2BZOWoHr51DW7SUEsp7-iOIEMCl-?usp=sharing Look in the NOV-2023 folder.

I'll re-image it tonight.

I have added another folder to my Google Share - 04-DEC-2023. It only has one disk image. I request for a redump of a disk. The raw image now creates an ATX image of Adam-Trace a Genealogy program. -Marshall

It's been a while since I posted the raw images, has anyone found anything of interest? I'm out of town, so I'm itching to get back to imaging. Thanks!

Does this monitor have a male or female VGA connector? I'm looking at the Best Electronics cable, and I see that it is a female connector. Might have to order a gender changer? Thanks!