[Coco] Backup CoCo floppy directly to PC using Drivewire & HDB-DOS?

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:28 AM 9/25/2009, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I still got a little birth day money to spend, so I was considering what
>neat stuff to get for my CoCo. I already intend to get the Bluetooth Pak,
>although CoCoNet is not ready yet.

I intend to pick back up on CoCoNet and possibly release the DECB ROM 
patch source code.  There's about 4 basic functions there that BASIC 
can tap into for playing around on the web, using remote virtual 
disks, etc.  The PC server source code would be released as well if I 
decide to give the project to the community to finish and enhance 
on.  I could then spend time writing multi-player games and apps that 
use CoCoNet.


>However, regarding my little endeavor discussed earlier on the list (see
>below) I was wondering whether DriveWire can solve a current problem for me.
>
>Wanting to back up a lot of diskettes, I was wondering whether I using
>DriveWire and HDBDOS simply can use the BACKUP command to directly transfer
>a diskette's content to PC.

I use DriveWire 3 when I burn the EPROMs that go in the wireless 
paks.  I have the Disto MPROM .dsk mounted on the PC and walk over to 
the CoCo, type DIR, RUN "MPROM", LOAD->NEWRS232.BIN (the patched 
version of the Tandy Deluxe RS-232 Pak ROM), then (2) to burn it to 
the EPROM that's in the burner pak.  The CoCo to PC serial connection 
is my own cable I make, hooked to a USB to Serial adaptor on the laptop.


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~ Roger Taylor