[Coco] DriveWire Update

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Christian,

I forgot to put them in the archive.  Someone else already pointed this out.  I'll update sometime today.

The _mb_ stands for "motherboard".  These are meant to replace the motherboard ROMs of the CoCo, should one choose to go that route.

Boisy

On Dec 24, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Christian Lesage wrote:

> Boisy,
> 
> I don't see in this archive some of the ROM files that were available in the past (hdbdosdw3ccX.rom). How does one burn an EPROM containing HDB-DOS for DriveWire from these files?
> 
> I guess the .trk files are meant to be dumped on track 34 of a diskette, so that the code gets executed when the user types the DOS command, right?
> 
> But what are those "mb" files (dw3dos_mb_ccX.rom)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> I've updated our DriveWire 3 web page at Cloud-9 (direct link: http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire3.html)
>> 
>> Under free downloads, you will see the first link has changed to: "DriveWire 3 HDB-DOS and DW3DOS ROM Images, cassette files and track files"
>> 
>> Download the ZIP file and you will be presented with WAV files for HDB-DOS DW for the CoCo 1, 2 and 3, as well as WAV files for DW3DOS.  ROM and LOADMable files for all of these are also in the archive.  This is the whole kit and kaboodle, so have fun with it.
>> 
>> I'll start working on instructions on how to set up DriveWire on this page.
>> 
>> Thanks go to Aaron and Jim for making me do all of this extra work today :)  Kidding aside, this is what I envisioned DriveWire to be: an extensible protocol that could accommodate a number of different features.  Thanks to community participation from the likes of Aaron, Jim, Darren and others, it's turning out to be more than I expected.  Good job everyone.
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