[Coco] Not coco related but trs80

[Mathew Boytim]

 I adapted my M1/3/4 L(S)DOS DriveWire driver for M2 LSDOS.  I don't have a M2 so have only been able to test it using the trs80gp M2 emulator.  I am not very familiar with the M2 but it looks like 9600baud is the highest standard baud that the M2 serial ports A/B can do.  At 9600 buad it is slow (the trs80gp emulator emulates the serial delay).  Would you have any interest in testing it with your real M2, especially being a coco enthusiast you are probably already familiar with DriveWire?  You would need LSDOS boot disk and a way to transfer the driver.  I'm not sure if the PC serial ports can do non-standard bauds but if so we could step up the baud.
Matt

    On Monday, December 14, 2020, 09:48:17 PM EST, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:  
 
 
 
 
Thank you.      I will check that out right now.    I do have a Gotek on my model 1 and my coco.      i can easily pull either out
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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> On Dec 14, 2020 at 9:44 PM, Mark J. Blair  <nf6x at nf6x.net>  wrote:
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> >  On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:11 PM, rietveld rietveld  <rietveldh at hotmail.com>  wrote:
> >  My hands are kind of tied by the 8 inch floppy drive. I only own the TRSDOS disk as well as a bunch of blank ones. I dont have a SDcard hardrive solution for either of the computers so making disks from an image is not an option
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> Do you have a floppy disk drive emulator such as an HxC2001 or a Gotek? It is possible to use those with the 8" Tandy systems. I made a PCB for interfacing their 34 pin interfaces to the 50 pin host interface in the 8" drive systems:
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> https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/fd50to34
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> You don't need my board, though. You can hand-wire an adapter cable if you would prefer, because no active electronics are needed. Even if you want to end up running entirely from real 8" floppy diskettes, an emulator is handy for initial bootstrapping, and for using the target system to copy from emulated images to real diskettes.
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> The same emulators can also be used with CoCo floppy diskette interface cartridges, though we have more convenient CoCo-native solutions like CoCoSDC, too.
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