[Coco] communicating to the outside world

[Bob Devries]

Tony,
If there's a Mac version of DriveWire, then this would be your answer. You 
can create disk images on the Mac, and mount them using the DriveWire 
server, and access then with your Coco using the serial bit-banger port, and 
suitable software.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Revelle" <arevelle at verizon.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] communicating to the outside world


>> Far as I know, there is no way to do that in MESS, whatever flavor.  None
>> of the emulators I've seen emulator the RS-232 pack which would be
>> needed for your application.
>>
>> The latest JV / Collyer Coco3 emulator has, I think, the capability to
>> include PC assembly code. Theoretically, you could write your own
>> program in Intel assembly to interface with the JV emulator gaining
>> access to the PC modem.
>>
>>
>
> From what I've been following on this list, it appears that to  exchange 
> files from one source to the other is by loading disk images  and then 
> physically transferring them to a CoCo's drive and vise- versa. This, 
> unfortunately, won't work in my setup as Macs have no  floppy drives, only 
> cd burners. They do, however have USB and  Firewire ports and I have used 
> USB to RS-232 and USB to parallel  adapters successfully to communicate 
> with other devices, namely PLCs  and engravers.
> I can obtain a USB based 3.5 floppy, but I don't know if I could  format 
> it so that a CoCo could read it. I understand that the PC  based emulators 
> can read and write CoCo formated disks, and I can  emulate Windows on the 
> Mac, but whether an emulation of an emulation  of an emulation can format 
> a USB based floppy, I don't know. But  enough rambling, I appreciate any 
> help can get.
> Thanks in advance,
> Tony
>
>
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