[Coco] Coco flash without drivewire

Tue Apr 25 11:52:57 EDT 2017

Let me start by saying I just got the CocoFlash at the fest so I have only used it one night.  I dont have drivewire but I do have the SDC and a physical drive so I figured there must be a way for a tech newbie like me to get the flash loaded.

My way may not be the best way but it was easy enough that I have so far flashed about 45 rom pak files onto it.

This is what I did after converting the .ccc to .bin

These instruction assume that

you have 'wimgtool' installed on your PC and that you have the 'prgflash.dsk' on your PC

you have a SDC and dual floppy drive in a MPI with your coco

With your PC

1 open 'wimgtool'

2 select 'file', then 'open', then choose 'prgflash' from the cocoflash folder

3 you will now see the contents of that .dsk file displayed

4 next select 'image', then 'insert file...'

5 open your .bin folder and select a file to add to the disk

6 a popup window appears confirming this, just click 'ok'

your new .bin is now added to the .dsk image.

repeat steps 4 - 6 to add more .bins
when done close 'wimgtool' and ' prgflash.dsk' will be saved with the new files

7 add the 'prgflash.dsk' to the SD card of your SDC

with your coco

1 boot up your coco with the SDC and navigate to, and select, the 'prgflash.dsk'
then exit the SDCX gui if open (BREAK) key

2 type DRIVE 1, off

3   put a disk in physical drive 1 and do a 'dskini' if needed

4 do a 'backup 0 to 1'   this copies the 'prgflash.dsk' to the physical disk in drive 1

5 power off the coco and remove the SDC from slot 1 and replace with the CocoFlash
        then select slot '4' to enable the disk drive
        power up and exit cocoflash menu 'BREAK' key

6 move the newly created physical disk from drive 1 to drive 0
        RUN 'prgflash.bas' and follow the flashing instructions in the program

7 load "menu.bas' and edit line 10000 as needed, then save 'menu.bas'
type 'run 60000'
this creates the file'basrom.bin'

8 run 'prgflash.bas' and flash 'basrom.bin' to slot 0

9 backup the physical disk to the .dsk on the SD card and PC to maintain the 'menu' that you created

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of camillus gmail <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
Sent: April 25, 2017 10:09:52 AM
To: Bill via Coco
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco flash without drivewire

Please make it a PDF file so anyone that is interested can download it..

thnks

On 4/25/2017 5:47:10 AM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
For the guys who want a Coco flash but use SDC instead of Drive wire...

Right now the easiest way to write to the new cocoflash is to use drivewire but I figured out a way to use the SDC and a physical drive instead. If anyone is interested I can post detailed instructions

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