• CoCo 2 file converting

    From ruglen@tpg.com.au@21:1/5 to mike on Tue Apr 5 03:32:07 2016
    On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 9:06:00 AM UTC+9:30, mike wrote:
    Would anyone happen to know the fileformats for VIP writer and/or
    McPaint? or possibly a conversion program to convert to a PC format to
    allow for editing?

    all help appreciated..

    mike

    Mike...welcome to the same problem as me. I have dozens of floppy discs containing documents written using VIP Writer which I want to extract. But how? I've even kept my old computer which takes both size floppies plus a disc drive just in case I
    ever find a way of getting the material out of the discs. At the moment I'm on Windows 7. Let me know if you ever find an answer please. Thanks, John.

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  • From David Snowdon@21:1/5 to ruglen@tpg.com.au on Wed Apr 6 17:46:59 2016
    You responded to a 15 year old message. If you still have a working CoCo
    and disk system, I would set up a null modem cable between the CoCo and
    Windows system and transfer the files using the Z-MODEM serial RS-232 protocols.

    As to reading the VIP writer files on a PC system, I found it best to
    write a program to strip the 8th bit of each character in the VIP file.
    Then you can read the data using Notepad or Wordpad.

    David


    ruglen@tpg.com.au wrote:
    On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 9:06:00 AM UTC+9:30, mike wrote:
    Would anyone happen to know the fileformats for VIP writer and/or
    McPaint? or possibly a conversion program to convert to a PC format to
    allow for editing?

    all help appreciated..

    mike

    Mike...welcome to the same problem as me. I have dozens of floppy
    discs containing documents written using VIP Writer which I want to
    extract. But how? I've even kept my old computer which takes both size floppies plus a disc drive just in case I ever find a way of getting the material out of the discs. At the moment I'm on Windows 7. Let me
    know if you ever find an answer please. Thanks, John.


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