[Coco] Hi all. New to the list

[Joel Ewy]

Todd Wallace wrote:
> I noticed there is an OSX version of DriveWire, which is what im using here.  My difficulty arises from how to get the coco side of the software going. The instructions on the website say to use a cassette cable and a .wav file to load the coco program for transferring files. However I have no tape cable, nor do I want to use a .wav file to load each time i want to access the Mac/PC.  Is there a .BIN version of the coco utility for DriveWire from a disk?
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If you have a real CoCo disk controller and a way to burn an appropriate 
EPROM for it, that's the best way to go.  The drivewire client software 
is actually a patched Disk BASIC called HDB-DOS.  I'm not sure about 
loading it over the top of an un-patched Disk BASIC, though I seem to 
remember some of the other patched BASICs (like ADOS perhaps?) being 
loadable from floppy.

I've got mine in a Disto Super Controller II and it works great.  I've 
even gotten it to run from a modified Orchestra 90cc cartridge (though I 
still have inexplicable problems being able to toggle between the 
original Orch90 ROM and the HDB-DOS, but that's a different matter...)

JCE

> On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>>> Many others have a package called DriveWire working, and I understand it
>>>> is
>>>> even faster.  
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