[Coco] Who worked on the coco3dw1 implementation for MESS?

[Richard Goedeken]

Sorry for the confusion here; in this message I was responding to the question
from Robert Hermanek.  He got stuck on some basic usage issues.

Your problem with OS-9 VHDs is a much more sophisticated use case; I'll
discuss that with you off the list.

Richard

On 02/17/2015 07:43 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Richard Goedeken wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> The MESS software contains all the code for emulating the hardware "becker"
>> port.  In order to use this with DriveWire, you need to load a special version
>> of HDB-DOS which is patched to communicate with the Becker port, which is a
>> "virtual" hardware device in the sense that it was never used with a real
>> original Coco - only the FPGA coco or emulated cocos use this special hardware
>> port.
>>
>> You can either load HDBDOS directly from a ROM image (using the MESS target
>> coco3dw1 instead of coco3 or coco3h or whatever).  Or you can load the patched
>> HDB-DOS program off of a disk image and exec it.  The ROM image and the disk
>> image should be in the ToolShed archive somewhere.  Let me know if you can't
>> find it.
>>
>> Richard
>>
> 
> Well, that does not work quite right as I tried to describe in a private message.
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> 
> Robert
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