[Coco] [Color Computer] pc to coco

[Joel Ewy]

herojr2002 wrote:
> How do you get coco programs from a PC to the coco
>
>   

Besides the ways already mentioned (disk images, SVD, Drivewire) I
believe there is also a utility that comes with one of the emulators
that will write a file to a WAV file compatible with the CoCo's cassette
port.  Or you can make the WAV file from the CoCo emulator itself.  One
or both of those statements is true.  Then you can hook up a CoCo
cassette cable to your PC's sound card, play the WAV file, and CLOAD(M)
it into the CoCo.  Though slow and perhaps error prone, it does have the
advantage of not requiring any special hardware or software.  You can
build the cable with parts from Radio Shack (imagine The Shack actually
being helpful to CoCo owners in 2008).  You can also use an .MP3 player
(most will play WAV files) or similar portable digital audio device in
place of a cassette drive.  Some of these devices will even record.  I
have one that will, but I need to cook up some kind of pre-amp because
the signal level coming out of the CoCo's cassette port barely registers
and is entirely inadequate.  I think the CoCo is putting out microphone
level and the .MP3 player wants line-level.  Or something like that.

Alternatively if you have some kind of mass storage on the CoCo, or if
you have the RS-232 PAK and can stand to use its built-in ROM terminal
program, you could transfer the file over a serial null-modem cable,
which might be a little faster than the cassette port.  If you really
had nothing but a CoCo 3 and a PC, you could load a RAMDISK program over
the cassette port, and then a terminal program.  Then you could use the
terminal program to download other stuff off the serial port.  :)

JCE

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