[Coco] too much work?

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

>From Mike Delyea in Toronto

I see, drivewire is meant to remove the need for physical disks.  Call me
old school, but I want my coco to use actual disks if at all possible.  I
just wondered if I could make the disks easier by using drivewire.


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:51 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Once you have drivewire running, it is easiest simply to stop using
> physical disks altogether.  If your goal is to run coco software found on
> the Internet, it's a good solution.. Click a disk image on a Web page and a
> second later you're running the program on your coco.
>
> If you are looking for an easier way to write files to physical floppies, I
> don't think there is much advantage in using Drivewire over what you are
> doing now.  Both require several steps.
>  On May 9, 2014 9:36 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> > >From Mike Delyea in Toronto
> >
> > Hope somebody can give me some direction on this.  Right now I use an old
> > Dell P3 with a 5.25 drive in it to make disks for my coco3.  The way I do
> > it is, I first format the disk with the coco, then I take the disk over
> to
> > the Dell, which is running Jeff Vavasour's emulator (which allows writing
> > of real coco disks), and copy the files over from .dsks that I've
> > downloaded.  Its worked well so far, I've been able to copy basically any
> > .dsk this way, and even made a Nitros9 boot disk which I then took back
> to
> > the coco and I was then able to make a 40trk DS Nitros9 boot disk from
> it.
> > My question is this - am I doing too much work?  Would using something
> like
> > drivewire make this easier (the caveat being I would have to load
> drivewire
> > from disk because I have no means of burning an EEPROM)?
> >
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