[Coco] dw 3

[Luis Fernandez]

Amigos no entiendo bien ingles y soy nuevo en la listatal vez no tenga que ver con lo que estan diciendo
pero he construido en dos semanas una utilidad integrada en windows para ver y revisar DSKno vi ninguna buenatoolshed hace muchas cosas pero en comandos 
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Esta en fase beta 0,8
Copia de PC COCO y viceversa, arrastrando y soltandoFormatea , desfracmenta, ordena DSK.
Revisa errores de FAT
VER Track Y sectors como en coco pantalla verde
Convierte BAS BIN a ASC y viceversa
Ve y edita textos en DSK
View and edit HEX DSK 
Borra PC y DSK 
PROXIMAMENTE OS9 y NITRO, 40 tarck, 80 tack y DD

> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:49:03 -0500
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] dw 3
> 
> >
> > My thoughts exactly. A lot of this is possible via toolshed but it would be
> > nice. :-) While I'm dreaming (:-)) it would be nice to be able use the ide
> 
> I think this is already all possible using the dw4 mode.  If it is
> not, I will do everything I can to make it possible and easy for you,
> but I need to understand what is desired.  I am struggling here :)
> 
> > or scsi version of hdbdos and still have access to drivewire disks. Alas, I've
> > mentioned that to Boisy and his response was along the line of no way, ain't
> > happening. (then he spent the next 15min going into painful detail on why it
> > couldn't happen.) I'm sure I'll be set straight if I'm wrong but the primary
> > issue had to do with the size of the rom. My contention is that a coco3 comes
> > with 128K of ram with only 64K available directly via rs/hdb dos. The superide
> > comes with 4 virtual roms and the ability to access 256 "floppies" or more
> >  directly from a CF card. I often think that with creative page switching of ram
> > that it can all be loaded in ram and the drivewire/ide/scsi parts of the code
> > switched in and out as needed. Of course as time goes on when using my actual
> > coco at home I tend to use drivewire and when away from home the CF card so it's
> > more of a hassle then anything.
> >
> 
> This is a limitation, but there are ways to deal with it.  What I do
> with the SuperIDE is to put HDBDOS for harddrives in rom slot 0 and
> HDBDOS for DriveWire in slot 3.  On power up, we are in hard drive
> mode.  I have a tiny basic program on disk 0 of the DECB partition on
> the CF card that switches to the HDBDOS for DW:
> 
> 10 poke &hff59,3
> 20 poke 113,0
> 30 dload
> 
> Now, if I want to use DW in OS9, I just power on and type DOS.. my OS9
> system loads off the superide's CF card and loads the DW drivers.  If
> I want to use DW in BASIC (or boot OS9 from DW), i power on and type:
> RUN"DW"  (the program above).  The ROM is switched to HDBDOS/DW and
> the coco resets instantly.  Ready to go in DW mode.
> 
> The only situation this doesn't allow is copying from drivewire disks
> to superIDE/cf disks in BASIC.  In OS9, you can do this easily.  There
> is a way to mount your DECB disk partition under OS9 and then copy the
> DriveWire disks to CF slots, which would solve the problem if I could
> figure out how to make that trick work :)
> 
> 
> > The Other Frank
> >
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