31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
2:47 p.m.
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
There's another program out there that I hear has
a few more formats than
Teledisk has. I thinks its called Xenocopy. I believe its still
available.
I usually feel strongly about the ethics of advertising on a mailing
list, but since you DID bring it up :-)
XenoCopy-PC IS still available, although current sales have declined a bit
since the peak :-( Currently at 400 formats, out of an estimated 2500
mutually incompatible disk formats. The majority of the formats are
various CP/M formats, plus some variant MS-DOS formats, some "MS
stand-alone Basic", some P-system, etc. Unfortunately, (going back to the
beginning of this thread), I do NOT handle TRS-80 Model II TRS-DOS,
although I handle some of the CP/Ms that were available for it, such as
Pickles and Trout.
$79.95 +S/H + Sales tax if in Calif.
If you have a legitimate copy of a XenoSoft version, and are an active
participant of this list, send the original disk and I'll re-record it
with a more current version for free.
If you have a COMPLETE copy from a certain disreputable publisher, $20 to
upgrade to a legal copy.
The "raw sector content / ignore the file system mode" remains undocumented
and unsupported. Abandon all hope ye who use ALT or CTRL while pressing
the F7 in the select files screen. We will deny all knowledge.
BTW, the Epson Geneva PX-8 diskettes that I've seen were 40 track 3.5"
(at 67 TPI). Readable using a 720K (135 TPI) drive (plus XenoCopy-PC or
equivalent software :-), but not entirely reliable to write to.
Other colleagues and participants in the specialty:
MicroSolutions seems to have abandoned Uniform.
Has anybody heard from Mark Graybill? of Intersecting Concepts/Media Master?
Mike Gingel (Hypersoft) had a format conversion program that ran under
Model I and III TRS-DOS and derivatives. Anyone heard from him lately?
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366
Berkeley, CA 94710-2219