[Coco] Really not understanding how to use DW

Chris Osborn fozztexx at fozztexx.com
Mon Sep 30 01:54:24 EDT 2013


Hurray! It works! I have no idea what I can do with it, but it finally does something!

http://i.imgur.com/jv1mC6d.jpg

On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> Yep, that page is a mess, i can see how you ended up using becker disks.
> The disks that end in 'dw.dsk' are what you want, or you can use the disks
> labeled 'for use with bitbanger' on the Drivewire 4 site.  They really dont
> belong on the dw4 site but i keep them there because the nightly builds are
> by nature prone to be broken or weird.
> On Sep 30, 2013 1:26 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
> 
>> On this page the column on the right said "DriveWire 3/4" so I went with
>> becker.
>> 
>> http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
>> 
>> On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> 
>>> The becker disks are for devices or emulators using the becker interface.
>>> You want to use 'dw3' disks.
>>> On Sep 30, 2013 1:04 AM, "Chris Osborn" <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ok, so everyone said go read the DW3 docs and do what they say but use
>> DW4.
>>>> 
>>>> Here's what I do:
>>>> 
>>>> CLOADM:EXEC on CoCo which loads hdbcc2.wav
>>>> 
>>>> I get a boot screen that tells me HDB-DOS is loaded. On the DW4 I have
>>>> nos96809l1v030209coco2_becker.dsk loaded into Drive 0.
>>>> 
>>>> I then type DOS. Then I get a screen that looks like this:
>>>> 
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/Jj995yS.jpg
>>>> 
>>>> 
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