[Coco] DriveWire 3

[K. Pruitt]

Thanks a bunch, Willard, that works great.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 3


> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 02:04:22PM -0800, K. Pruitt wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to create an actual physical coco disk to replace cloading
>> the wav file from the host pc?
>
> Possible, but somewhat painful.  Since I've already done it, get
> http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/coco/hdbdw3boot.zip
>
> Write this to a physical disk (or just copy the files to a physical
> disk, there's no magical hidden stuff)  and RUN"HDBDOS
>
> Real credit to Robert Gault who shows the way!  I don't seem to have
> the exact URL on hand but it's the cart2ram stuff on his page.
>
> In addition to Gault's stuff, I had to wrap a proper DECB .BIN header
> and footer around the .ROM file, which is a raw binary dump.
>
> If your drivewire-presented disks have both an OS9 filesystem and an
> HDBDOS "partition" you may need to mess with the offset pokes in
> HDBDOS.BAS.  I'm afraid I can't help you with that...
>
> Willard
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