[Coco] Help with Drivewire

Sun Jun 24 19:23:40 EDT 2018

I think the most economical way to get back into the coco hobby would be to use your newly purchased cassette cable and the free drivewire server and HDBDOS. Wav.    Just download the. Wav. And play it with the coco cassette cable plugged in coco and PC headphone jack.

Check cloud9's site for a LINK to the downloads

http://www.cloud9tech.com/

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  Original Message
From: Jack Carpenter via Coco
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 5:43 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Cc: Jack Carpenter
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with Drivewire

He ask me question I didn't know and if he didn't know then I didn't want to waste my money. That why.

    On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 9:16:56 PM GMT, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at verizon.net> wrote:

 Why wouldn't you just buy an already burned EPROM from Cloud 9 with the Coco 2 version of Drivewire 3?

Then, build the cartridge board, pop in the EPROM, and off you go!

You always seem to try to take the most difficult route.

-[ Al ]-
On 6/24/2018 4:51:17 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
I found this EPROM from eBay EPROM, 27C64A-15F, 64K (8K x 8) 150ns, 5 Volt, 28-pin Dip 5 Volt 27C64 | eBay will it work or not? I still need to find away to program it.

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On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 8:35:57 PM GMT, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Sunday 24 June 2018 13:59:33 rietveld rietveld wrote:

> Connect the coco cassette cable to the headphone jack on your' PC.
> Download DW and play the file using your computers media player.  It
> will load the same, or better, than playing it on a cassette
>
I can't emphasize enough that this is a better way. The signal to noise
and distortion of the cassette recorder is 30 to 40 db worse than the
signal to noise and distortion of the pc's audio channel. Whereas the
cassette load is often done poorly and the volume setting on the
cassette is very critical, the pc's lack of the cassettes dc bias noise
makes a perfect load 99.9% of the time.

The presence of an ac bias circuit in a cassette recorder was a huge
advertising advantage, and raised the price of a cassette recorder out
of the means of most who did not grok that the difference in price was
worth every cent of the increased cost. I had one once, paid nearly $150
in 1985 dollars for it, but my kids found out it just worked and wrecked
it in a week. I never bought them anything better than a $20 mayfair
from then on.

Use the pc's audio, it Just Works(TM). Leave the cassette recorder in the
rusty mists of time where it has belonged since the 1970's.

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> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>  Original Message
> From: Jack Carpenter via Coco
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 1:50 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts I don't
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Cc: Jack Carpenter
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with Drivewire
>
>
>  I don't have a Tape Player I order a Cassette cable off of eBay.
>
>    On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 5:43:39 PM GMT, Kevin Becker
> wrote:
>
>  In the short term you can load load HDBDOS from cassette without
> needing to burn a custom EPROM
>
> > On Jun 24, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco
> > wrote:
> >
> > That was my plans some day and it on my list.
> >
> >
> >   On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 4:17:00 PM GMT, Michael Brant
> > wrote:
> >
> > Best option is to get a cocosdc. It has dw compatile dos in the rom.
> > Thezippsterzone.com email Ed aka zippster there.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 11:47 AM Jack Carpenter via Coco
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I belong to Vintage Computer Forum and told where to find what I
> >> needed so I did.
> >>
> >> I had a Color Computer 2 about 35 years ago and I wanted to get
> >> back into it so I bought another one a few weeks ago. And wanted to
> >> hook up Drivewire but I need help programming a EPROM I getting
> >> this board from NF6X he made for the Coco1 2 and 3 but not sure
> >> what 28 pin EPROM I need.
> >>
> >> And what files I need. Here is a list.
> >>
> >> dw3dos_dsk_cc1.rom
> >> dw3dos_dsk_cc2.rom
> >> dw3dos_dsk_cc3.rom
> >> dw3dos_mb_cc1.rom
> >> dw3dos_mb_cc2.rom
> >> dw3dos_mb_cc3.rom
> >> hdbdosdw3cc1.rom
> >> hdbdosdw3cc2.rom*
> >> hdbdosdw3cc3.rom*
> >>
> >> Is there a EPROM programmer anyone know of?
> >>
> >> I need a cheap because I am on SS and tight fixed income.
> >>
> >> Any help would be great.
> >>
> >> Jack
> >>
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