[Coco] Creating a Coco Floppy in DOS

[Chad H]

Questioned asked was: How do I use PC DOS to copy files onto a CoCo
formatted 5.25 disk?

I haven't found a way yet to do this directly in one step.  If anyone else
knows, please share.  What I do is image the this
With the RETRIEVE DOS CoCo utility, then use the companion utility, PORT, to
insert files into the image (or extract depending on situation) then DISKINI
the image back to diskette.  Yes, a couple of extra steps, but not too
tedious to me.


-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Tim Fadden
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:45 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Creating a Coco Floppy in DOS

If you are making a cable, yes you need to swap the send and receive.  
Do a google search for NULL modem cable.  There are many variaties you 
can make.  Yo can probably get buy with the simplest and use xon-xoff  
flow control. If you need hardware flow controle, you will need a full 
blown null modem cable.  You can purchase null modem adapters, and 
cables most anywhere.  these work great for this. That would probably be 
best.


John T Chasteen wrote:
> With the serial cable, do I have to switch the send anf receive leads on
> one end?
>
> John
>  
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:59:16 -0400 <t.fadden at cox.net> writes:
>   
>> If you can't find the utility to make rsdos disks from pc dos you 
>> could do this.
>>
>> 1. connect pc to coco via serial connection start com program on pc, 
>> and com program on coco. 
>>
>> 2. Make sure the communication paramaters are the same, use 
>> null-modem cable, etc. What you type on one should show up on the 
>> other.
>>
>> 3. start sending the file on the pc, and start receiving on the 
>> coco. 
>>
>> I do something similar with os9 successfully. I haven't used an 
>> rsdos com program, but I would assume that it writes the downloaded 
>> file to disk.  Search of a pc com program that does xmodem, ymodem, 
>> or zmodem or all three.  At least one of these should be available 
>> with the rsdos com program.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---- Michael Robinson <deemcr at robinson-west.com> wrote: 
>>
>> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:22 -0700, Bill Barnes wrote:
>>     
>>> I seem to remember there was a program that was written for the 
>>>       
>> CoCo that allowed the reading and writing of a 40ss 5.25" Floppy.
>>     
>>> I also know there were some programs for the PC (DOS) That allowed 
>>>       
>> reading and writing of a CoCo disk... Guess I'll hafta dig around my 
>> disks and pray that they are readable (and hope I didnt lose it so I 
>> can get the name of it for you.
>>
>> MESS had an image tool that allowed me to copy the files from the
>> drivewire.dsk image to my hard drive on my PC.  Trouble is, how do
>> I copy these files to a COCO formatted 5.25" disk?
>>
>>
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