[Coco] Wireless Drive Pak

[Roger Taylor]

I've found a suitable wireless module that can be used to keep 
producing my "Wireless Pak", a.k.a Wireless Drive Pak.  Even though 
CoCoNet 1.x is set up to detect the A7 EB301 bluetooth module and 
initiate a connection to the PC when the CoCo is turned on, the new 
module can be used without much trouble.

When the CoCo is turned on with this kind of pak, it will report no 
connection is found to the PC and attempt to auto-boot to either your 
real floppy system or bitbanger cable drive, etc.

After the CoCoNet server is started on your PC, you can warm-boot 
your CoCo using the Ctrl-Alt Reset combo and then CoCoNet will detect 
the wireless connection for Drive 0 and all is well.

I still have 50+ wireless pak boards but they can be used for other 
types of serial paks as well.  If there's enough interest in the 
wireless pak again, after I finish the Drive Pak back orders I will 
produce more wireless paks.  Only this time, CoCoNet 2.0 can be used 
to make the wireless pak act like a MicroSD Drive Pak, because I'm 
working on emulating the Drive Pak protocol in the CoCoNet server, so 
the MicroSD card image (.img file) can be used with the wireless pak, too.

This means no need to mount disks by PC pathname anymore which is a pain.

Current EB301 Wireless Pak users will be able to swap out their EPROM 
and turn it into a Wireless Drive Pak.

Hang in there.


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~ Roger Taylor