[Coco] Copying a data/binary file from disk to cassette

[tim lindner]

Jean-Paul Samson <jeanpaulsamson at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > What's the best way of copying a non-BASIC file, like a .bin, from 
> > disk to cassette?  I tried COPY but setting a value of -1 returns a
> > function error (COPY "FILE.BIN:0" TO "FILE.BIN:-1")...and I was never
> > very good at GET, PUT, DSKI$, and all that.
> > 
> > I've got some data files on floppy, associated with various programs,
> > that I'd like to transfer to my laptop (via cassette adapter).  And
> > going in the other direction, I'd like to turn some .bins I have on
> > disk images into WAVs so that, again going via the cassette adapter,
> > I can try out some games and such on real hardware.
> > 
> > So, what's the best route?  I feel like I'm missing something 
> > obvious, so forgive me if I'm being slow here...
> 
> Since no one has mentioned this and if you are willing to spend some
> money, Cloud-9's DriveWire product might make your life a whole bunch
> easier.  It allows you to hook you CoCo up to a Mac (or PC), using the
> latter as a file server.  You can then copy files from real floppy discs
> on your CoCo into disk files onto your Mac via a serial-to-USB cable.
> These disk files can then be used directly in an emulator, I believe.
> 
> Here's a link to the product:
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire.html
> 
> Just a word of warning:  I've never been able to get the Mac version of
>DriveWire functional for CoCo-to-Mac transfers, although vice versa
>works fine.  The PC version of DriveWire works great, however, using
>the built-in serial ports or an FTDI-chipset based USB-to-serial
>converter.
>

Yes. DriveWire is super cool. I also use an FTDI based USB-to-serial
cable.

I'd love to hear more about your problems with the Mac server. It works
fine here in every situation I use it with.

-- 
tim lindner
tlindner at macmess.org                                              Bright