[Coco] DW4 - GUI Feedback

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>My basic idea is to have the program walk you through the process.
>>You choose "copy a floppy to dsk" and it prompts you for a destination
>>file name, displays the commands to type on the coco, and you're done.
>>It seems likely that for transfers from flopppy to disk, people
>>would want to do several disks in a row, so I was thinking a button to
>>"do it again". going .dsk to floppy, probably not a batch as much as
>>single disks?
>
> Sounds good. Where will the GUI be stored? Is it to be added to the HDB-DOS
> ROM for instant access?
>

Actually, the current GUI runs on the PC side, not the CoCo.  I have
thought about some CoCo side software for this, but hadn't explored
the idea too far.  It would certainly be possible to write a DECB
program that automated the CoCo side of things.  I've thought about
trying to make the DW4 features like virtual serial and networking
available in DECB somehow as well, but since OS9 is my main playground
I haven't made any real progress with that.


> I think it just needs to achieve the simple task of being able to do a
> BACKUP from a real Physical CoCo disk to a single file DSK on the PC/MAC and
> back.
>
> I am using the RAMDISK at the moment which required loading the RAMDISK
> first, then doing a BACKUP from physical drive to RAMDISK, re-activate
> HDBDOS drives and doing a BACKUP to it.
>
> Taking out the need to load the RAMDISK would save some time. Maybe a new
> command such as TRANSFER could be created which basically copies the
> physical drive #0 directly (or via RAM) to a DSK image on the PC.
>
> TRANSFER DSK (Transfer to DSK) and TRANSFER CC (Transfer to CoCo)?
>
> A GUI would be cool but the CoCo isn't a GUI based system... at least in
> it's native RS-DOS mode. A GUI may be more than what's needed.
>
> Nick
>
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