REVIEW: The CoCo SDC (and some other stuff...)

Load it up, and rock it out: get your game on with the CoCo SDC!
Warm up the CRT, it's time for another episode!
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[@catlord9]

I'm just a closet CoCo nut from back in the day. Stumbled across this video while looking for CoCoSDC (which I have) things (I've still got my original CoCo3 all decked out from back in the day!). Had to leave a comment because I love your 'Space Debris' background music in this video. Most excellent choice of music! :)

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Regards!

[@pixeltekservice4152]

Good old days... I'm so nostalgia "IO ERROR"

[@star2gmail]

Regarding the 16k cartridge size limit, there is another modern cartridge that allows loading multiple cartridges of up to 256k in size totaling up to 8Mb, the CoCo Flash. It does not do what the CoCo SDC does with disk emulation though, it specializes in cartridge images. www.go4retro.com/products/cocoflash/

[@TheSulross]

Your vids have a good pace -, Keep with that

[@lindnertim]

Time code 7:02: "The CoCo SDC doesn't solve one important issue. I want to try to preserve the disks that came with my CoCo." The CoCo SDC does allow preservation of real CoCo disks when you have a Multi-Pak and a working floppy disk controller. The CoCo SDC software allows you to turn off the emulation on a disk by disk basis. Thus allowing you to use DECB's BACKUP command to make an image of a disk. This is described in the manual: www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/CoCo%20SDC%20User%20Guide%20%28Darren%20Atkinson%29.pdf

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

AWESOME. Next step: get a working floppy controller.

[@RetroDawn]

To see if an Atari can read a floppy, unless it's a boot floppy, you must boot a compatible DOS (AKA System) disk first.

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Thanks!

[@star2gmail]

Regarding those mystery disks, the media is identified as double density soft sectored 40 track. They are dated 1984. I think they may be for a CP/M system or a Tandy TRS-80 model 1, 3, or 4.

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Great! Now its time to get some more TRS-80s!

[@KomradeMikhail]

Joe's Computer Museum As if you weren't already planning to...

[@jschutts]

They MIGHT also be OS-9 Disks.. You might want to consider that...

[@vanhetgoor]

there is something wrong with the sound. Warn out loudspeaker perhaps.

[@ms-ex8em]

hello can this tandy coco sdc be emulated in xroar ? or mess etc? thanks.

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

I do not know.

[@jschutts]

Where do I get that UTILITY you used to READ the disks from the PC??? Namely "CoCoDiskUtility"??? Do you have a LINK???

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Here ya go! cococoding.com/cocodskutil/

[@Oldcomputer]

@@JoesComputerMuseum That link is dead now. The guy lives in Venezuela. The 4shared host he points to from his blog seems to just be a scam site now. Do you have another link to the util? Or maybe submit the zip file to www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ for hosting? Thanks! EDIT: looks like someone already uploaded it. :) FYI for anyone else looking for it look in www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Utilities/

[@raymorin7726]

Im wondering if those disks are c programming language for the os9 operating system

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Good idea. I have a CoCo3 now, so I may be able to test that theory.

[@SatanicMac]

Started following after I picked up a coco 2 the day your first coco video dropped, good to follow along and get ideas! I lucked out with a pristine Korean 64k upgraded to extended basic 1.1 / 1.3. I'm still hunting for a proper crt and of course some games and peripherals. Almost disappointing I wont have to dig around the machine like my Mac Se imgur.com/a/Ule1x

[@Luis45ccs]

Hello, very interesting, I would like to manually translate this video into Spanish, I have already done it several times for 8bit guy but youtube does not let me, apparently you must authorize the translation by the community to be able to translate it, I hope I can afford to do it, and Thank you very much for the video.

[@Luis45ccs]

Hello, very interesting, but with another disk drive if it works, for example with a floppy drive of 360 kb of PC if everything works. Of course the CoCo SDC is better

[@yaircarel6557]

They might also be an OS/9 disks as this was another OS running on the coco

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Yeah, but the CoCo image utility should have been able to read the disks even if they were OS/9, right?

[@carelyair]

Yair Carel I don’t know. Never used this one.

[@star2gmail]

@@JoesComputerMuseum The utility you were using should have been able to image the disks if they were OS-9 format.

[@holycowmanheck]

If it's a single-sided drive you should use dskini0 (zero).

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Depends on how the drive is jumpered, does it not? In my particular case, dskini0 doesn't cause the heads to move, and gives the same result regardless of the drive I use. Formatting a disk using a PC with the right tool and trying to DIR the disk specifying any drive number also gives the same: IO Error.

[@holycowmanheck]

Just making sure. The default is drive zero. I hope you still keep trying to get it to work, or try a newer controller and drive. I still like having my disk drive around, even if I don't use it. You have some other videos I think I'll enjoy... so. SUBSCRIBED!

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Welcome to the nerd army! Yeah, what you don't see in this video is the literal weeks of nights after work I mucked about with the thing. Trust me, I tried everything. Magnetic media is probably still in the CoCo's future, but I'm not sure when. So many machines, so little time!

[@itsgreca.actualmenteabando375]

Will you continue making videos? People miss you. 😭

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Oh yeah, I'm not stopping. But I have a day job and many other things that get in the way of my KZbin hobby. I work on it when I can.

[@itsgreca.actualmenteabando375]

Joe's Computer Museum Oh! I know that feeling, I work every day and I just have a few hours to take a breath and live. I can't imagine how will it be when I start making some videos I am planning to do. I think coffee and long nights will be my friends. 😂 Greetings from Argentina! ✌

[@bradburns7380]

Seems like you tried everything except try a different drive cable :p lol.

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

If memory serves, I did. Just didn't film it.

[@alexabadi7458]

Sorry, but I AM the worse game player ever ! ;o)