These were made for the Model I in SD. They are flippy disks, with the
active part of the game (recorded with track order backwards as I recall) on
one side. I know the Coco supports SD, but most IBM PC's don't AFAIK.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison_at_t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Dicks [SMTP:ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 10:55 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Reading TRS-80 discs (was RE: Archiving old discs...)
>
>
>
> --- morrison_at_t-iii.com wrote:
> > If the TRS-80 disks are DD you can usually read them OK, but SD needs
> some
> > other computer (Model I, III, 4, Coco etc.)
>
> Hmm... I've got an ancient ORIGINAL of Zork I (published by Personal
> Software)
> I've wanted to back this thing up for years so I can see which data file
> is on
> it, but I've never owned anything that can read it. Is it likely to be
> SD?
> What kind of non-period hardware can read this? If need be, I could even
> hook up a 5.25" disk to my Amiga and get funky with that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ethan
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Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 13:44:21 BST