[Coco] Your stock CoCo is DriveWire-ready out-of-the-box (was: DriveWire for dummies?)

[Christian Lesage]

Boisy,

Let's say I come up with a solution that consists of 7 magic POKEs to 
type in on the CoCo 3. Would you consider it?

Christian


Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> Christian,
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> This is an interesting approach, but it has some caveats as you mentioned.  And the fact that it must be typed every time you power up the CoCo.  You could save it to cassette, but then, why not use the DriveWire cassette loader in that case?
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> The goal is to maximize the number of people who can get a real CoCo connected to their computers in a usable fashion, while minimizing the number of steps and the additional hardware necessary to do it (which minimizes hassle too).
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> If all CoCos had FLASH instead of ROM, this wouldn't even be an issue :)  But we have to deal with the designs that are baked in.  And even the DLOAD approach would require additional steps on the CoCo 3 because of the munged code in the BASIC ROM.
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> So far, it's either with a cassette cable and drivewire cable, or a ROM pak and drivewire cable. The lack of availability of ROM paks (and the necessity of burning ROMs) makes the cassette cable and drivewire cable approach the most universal one, in my opinion.
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> Boisy
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