[Coco] DriveWire bootstrapped off MP3 player!!! No floppy or controller required!

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at boisypitre.com
Tue Sep 28 16:05:20 EDT 2004


On Sep 28, 2004, at 11:34 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> For the Coco 1 & 2 it might make sense to integrate a DLOAD server into
> DriveWire 2.0. Convert the .bin file to a BASIC data/poke loader.
>
> Then only one cable would be needed to bootstrap.
>
> DLOAD:RUN
>
Why?  DLOAD doesn't work on the CoCo 3, and it would require people to 
do two different things depending upon which CoCo they are running.

LOADM'ing or CLOADM'ing the proper DWDOS executable is the way to go.  
It works the same on all CoCos.

Boisy




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