[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

[S Klammer]

Having a single download with all required files for "x" number of baseline
Coco configs would be beneficial along with disclaimers advising of
"unsupported" and where updates should be "currently" available... as long
as the package works.

If the end-user wishes to go beyond a few DECB dsks or booting an OS9
variant, then they can "upgrade" to the latest editions generously designed.

The baseline could therefore be a static snapshot.  Those who go to 230Kb,
6309, EPROM'd HDBDOS, etc, would proceed from there...

To borrow a TM, "It'll Just Work"...

(After all these years, being offline, and a move, I may yet find a "round
tuit" and dive back into building a Drivewire system on one of my Cocos as
well...)

Thanks to everyone who have made and continue to keep this "cat" (COCO)
alive.

Shain
On Sep 22, 2013 7:32 AM, "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > I agree, there is a real need for a complete package. The HDBDOS roms
> have gone through very little change in the past couple of years so I would
> say they're "stable" and need a home. I too have searched high and low to
> find a complte set of roms.
> > I understand Aaron not offering the roms or other stuff, but DW4 is his
> only software. HDBDOS is actually Boisy's though he's released it to open
> source. And that's where it sits.... as source in the toolshed repository,
> not even built when you build toolshed.
>
> Yes, HDB-DOS's home is currently in toolshed. Toolshed has many
> different things. When you "build toolshed" as Bill refers to, you
> just build the host computer/PC tools for Windows/etc. Stuff that
> should run on the CoCo is not built by the "normal" makefile. To build
> for instance HDB-DOS, you have to go to the hdbdos folder and run
> "make". The prerequisite for building HDB-DOS is to have the lwasm
> assembler from LWTOOLS, plus the "tools" if you want to make WAV and
> disk images. This is a very different process from building the
> "tools" so that's why they are separated.
>
> For your convenience, I have added a snapshot build of HDB-DOS to
> http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
> The zip file contains all the .WAV, .BIN, .CAS, .ROM files built by
> default. Please see the Makefile  for more information about what the
> different files are for.
>
> As Aaron points out for his software, rather than redistributing these
> snapshot files, please refer to the above snapshot folder.
>
> > There needs to be a files download section for the toolshed repo for
> current builds of the various utilities there... not just toolshed itself.
>
> Yes, that would be nice. We should also make a new release, so people
> do not download the release from 2008 or 2010... I hope the snapshots
> will be of help until then.
>
> Tormod
>
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