[Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?

[Kandur]

Bill, what I wanted was, to access physical floppy drives on the Coco,
while running Nitro OS-9 on VCC. Drive ON/OFF don't seem to work
on the Coco's physical drives from OS-9.

Kandur

Monday, July 7, 2014, 8:45:54 AM, you wrote:

> Kandur, if you are referring to the DRIVEON DRIVEOFF commands, these are
> exclusive to HDBDOS, so if the emulator is running HDBDOS and the emulator
> supports real floppies, then yes. Or in the case there's "emulated" floppies, then it will turn those off/on.
> When "on" the HDBDOS/RGBDOS RSDOS drives 0-3 on a 255 disk partitioned VHD
> are "on". When "off" then drives 0-3 will read/write to the real/emulated system (emulator) floppies.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
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> Sent: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 11:34 am
> Subject: [Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?


> Needed when the PC has no floppy drives.
> Any other Coco emulator can do that?

> Kandur

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