[Coco] 40 track floppies and DriveWire

[Allen Huffman]

On May 18, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Darren A wrote:
> The 2nd POKE essentially allows you to to do a BACKUP from real floppy
> drive 0 to virtual floppy 0 in the DSK file.  Without this POKE you
> end up with a DSK file containing an empty 35 track image as virtual
> floppy 0 followed by your 40 track image as virtual floppy 1.

Oh, I see. So this is for going from a "real" floppy to a virtual (individual) DSK image (40 tracks) on the DW server? That makes sense. I could simply backup each and every floppy one at a time this way using that method... I could automate that -- excellent!

So ... does it also handle 80 track disks? Like from OS-9? It seems it would be easier for me to do each and every physical disk I have as a DSK disk image, and DW would be easy to do that.

		-- Allen