[Coco] CoCoNet status

[Darren A]

Is this for BASIC only, or will you be providing boot loaders and
drivers for OS-9 and/or NitrOS-9?

Darren

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On 12/20/08, Roger Taylor  wrote:
> At 09:09 AM 12/20/2008, you wrote:
>>I was thinking of getting a Drive Wire set up but this sounds like
>>it will do what Drivewire does and more. Is this true or am I making
>>a wrong assumption. My main goal would be to mount RS-DOS and OS-9
>>disk images saved on my PC, have them be read and write enabled
>>while also being able to use my Real Floppy drives on my coco III at
>>the same time. Will CoCoNet do all this?
>
>
> Yes, CoCoNet includes virtual drives @ 57600 bps and 115200 bps.  You
> mount them from the CoCo so you won't have to move back and forth
> between the CoCo and PC.  You can mount by pathname which can be the
> PC path to the .dsk file or a web URL.  Web disks are copied to a
> local disk so if you write to them, you're writing to your own copy
> of the disk.  Writing to the web copy isn't possible.  I'm working to
> put a choose and click menu in which would let you explore the PC
> directories similar to how the PORT.EXE program does.  You'd be able
> to use the arrow keys and SPACE or ENTER to navigate around and mount
> disks by hitting 0-3 next to the entry.
>
> The physical drives can be turned on and off.  Only the standard 4
> drives are supported at this time since CoCoNet doesn't attempt to
> super-patch the Disk ROM that far.  I know how, but it would go
> beyond the scope of what I want the system to do.  Anyone can further
> patch if they want to.
>
>
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> Roger Taylor
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