[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[Rick Thornquist]

Al -

1. I was considering contacting Ira, but he doesn't ship to Canada.  I am
heading to the US in April, and if all else fails I was going to get the
disks shipped to a friend there and pick them up.

2. Thanks for the offer!  If I can't get this to work I might just do that.

3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
worked.  I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though.  I tried it and,
unfortunately, it didn't work.  It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,
though some of the programs do say they can work with those kind of
drives.  I've just dug out an old 360KB drive and will try that instead -
we'll see if that works.

In the category of "I know this won't work but I'll try it anyway", I have
an Amiga with a 8088 Bridgeboard and a 360KB drive that I thought I'd try
with Imagedisk.  Not even close - it couldn't even find a drive
controller.  Oh, well!

Thanks for the help!

- Rick

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
wrote:

> While the Coco is physically capable of writing disks for the TRS-80 Model
> I/III/4, nobody has written imaging software to do it.
>
> You have several options.
>
> 1. You can contact Ira Goldklang at www.trs-80.com and he will make disks
> for you for small donation.
>
> 2. If you want to send me disks with return postage, I'll gladly make you
> boot disks.
>
> 3. If you have access to a PC with a 360k floppy drive you can go here:
> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm  and get Imagedisk
>
> You can make boot disks with it. There are Model 4 disks in Imagedisk
> format at the bottom of the page.
>
> I would recommend the Emulator TRS32 (http://www.trs-80emulators.com/) on
> a PC for making disks from images you can find on Ira's site, or Tim Mann's
> Site (http://tim-mann.org/misosys.html), or here:
> http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80.php
>
> My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I, and if I can answer questions for
> you, I'd be glad to.
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Rick Thornquist
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> I'm new to the list, having recently acquired a CoCo 3.   I have a few
> retro computers, but I've always wanted a CoCo, and now I have one!
>
> I've also just acquired a TRS-80 Model 4P.  Unfortunately, the 4P didn't
> come with operating system disks, so I'm stuck until I get some.
>
> My Question: I've just ordered a DriveWire cable and I've been able to find
> the .DSK files for some of the TRS-80 Operating systems.  Can I use
> DriveWire and the disk drives on the CoCo to create operating system disks
> for the 4P?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> - Rick Thornquist
>
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