[Coco] Transferring software from PC to Coco2 with RS-232 pak?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I would get a different terminal program (Greg-E-Term, or MikeyTerm are good ones on the Coco 2). I don’t think the built in RS-232 pak even supported XModem, did it?
You won’t be able to use .CAS files, though, unless you save them to disk and write a program to transfer them to cassette. Since you mentioned that you have a disk drive, you can download .BIN, .BAS, etc. files (there are some .BIN files available directly on my website for some of the game downloads) to your PC, and then send those over to your Coco using Xmodem using one of the above programs, to disk, and they should just work at that point.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Mar 21, 2016, at 6:09 AM, Brian Taylor <brian.t.taylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David Ladd <davidwladd at ...> writes:
> 
>> 
>> Brian,
>> 
>> If you have the option I would probably try getting into DriveWire for
>> transferring files between the PC and CoCo.
>> 
>> You can get a HDBDOS ROM or a disk load able version of it to use that
>> should work fine with your CoCo2 via a Bitbanger serial cable between 
> the
>> CoCo2 and the PC's serial port.
>> 
>> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
>> 
>> This would be a good link to follow for resources to research the
>> information that you need related to this topic.
>> 
> 
> I know about DriveWire. I sent Cloud9Tech an inquiry for purchasing a 
> cable but they haven't gotten back to me yet. I just want to see if I 
> could get this to work in the mean-time.
> 
> 
> 
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