[Coco] Using a Coco without a floppy drive - what are the options ?

[Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado]

Dear Steve, greetings from Brazil!

I´m about to receive my first ever CoCo as well. I bought mine from Mark
Marlette (Cloud-9), by the way. I´m in the same situation as you for I want
to play with my CoCo with a minimum floppy drive use. To accomplish that, I
bought the DriveWire solution and a single 5.25" floppy drive installed with
an EPROM (HDB-DOS) for booting up my CoCo 3 directly from the PC. It seems
like an optimum solution.

I shall receive my CoCo 3 within two weeks.


Cheers!



2007/2/8, Steve.Lancaster at moorestephens.com <
Steve.Lancaster at moorestephens.com>:
>
> Hi all
>
> I am waiting delivery of my first ever Coco. I intend on using it, in the
> first instance, mainly for games but will then proceed to find out more
> what the machine can do.
>
> Although I have drives (3.5 and 5.25) for a BBC Master - I am aware that
> it is possible to use the Coco without a floppy.
>
> What are the general options available - I am aware of the following
>
> 1) Drive Wire
> 2) CF Interface
> 3) Super IDE
> 4) Hard drives
>
> What experience of these options do you fellow Coco users have and in
> general, what is the best option taking into considration ease of use and
> cost.
>
> Also, does a system like MMC exist for a Coco ? (I already have a GoMMC
> for the BBC and MMC64 for the Commodore 64). I suspect that the CF
> Interface is similar, however.
>
> Best wishes
> Steve
>