[Coco] too much work?

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Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
http://computerpcdoc.com/

I can burn a 2764 28-pin 8KB eprom for you with the latest HDB-DOS Drivewire
image for the Coco 1, 2 or 3 if you like.  Just let me know what you need.
To answer your question about how you make your own Coco disks, I have been
making 3.5" DSDD 720KB floppies in a very similar fashion for a while now
only I use VCC which emulates the Coco 3, but you can still use it to format
and backup to physical floppies whatever .dsk image files you like as long
as you have the proper physical floppy drive for your media which it sounds
like you do.  
After you get a more permanent Drivewire setup and you start using the
Drivewire 4 Server on your PC, you will be able to access .dsk images on
your PC using your Coco of choice allowing you to backup the .dsk images you
like directly to physical floppies which is even more convenient albeit a
little slower.  Then you will have two methods you can use to transfer Coco
.dsk images to physical floppies ready for use on a real Coco.  So there you
are.  It sounds like you are doing well.  I just thought I would give you a
couple of suggestions I have used in the past.  Take care my friend.
Kip

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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 9:36 PM
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Subject: [Coco] too much work?

>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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