[Coco] Chromasette

[Bob Devries]

Steve,

I wonder if something like Disk Utility for the coco(3) would work over 
DriveWire?

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Chromasette


> Bob, I used Cloud-9's DriveWire program to copy the Chromasette files you 
> wanted to .dsk images.  I'll be sending those to you directly in a 
> separate e-mail.
>
> I do have some questions for Boisy, or others that are more familiar with 
> DriveWire than I am.
>
> I know that DriveWire's primary purpose is to have a PC harddrive used as 
> a real Coco's harddrive.  You can have up to four virtual hard drives at 
> one time each composed of 256 virtual floppy drives containing .dsk files, 
> so there is a tremendous amount of software available at your fingertips 
> at any time.  DriveWire works very well for this.  It's actually pretty 
> incredible for those of you who have never tried it.
>
> Unless there are some DriveWire tricks I don't know about, using DriveWire 
> in reverse (to produce .dsk files on the PC harddrive from a real Coco) is 
> not nearly as simple.  Here is what I had to do.  The Chromasette tapes 
> had already been backed up on to my Coco harddrive.  For each tape, I 
> needed to copy the files from my Coco hard drive to my floppy drive, one 
> tape at a time, using HDB-DOS.  I then booted into DriveWire's version of 
> HDB-DOS.  I loaded a virtual disk into the PC harddrive.  BASIC files were 
> the easiest to transfer.  I would LOAD each file from the Coco floppy 
> drive, then SAVE each file to the PC virtual disk.
>
> I ran into two problem files.  I had to write a short BASIC program to 
> copy .DAT files using the OPEN "O" and "I" functions along with INPUT #1 
> and WRITE #1 functions, first reading all the data into an array, then 
> writing the array to the PC.  It seemed to work OK, but large .DAT files 
> would pose a problem using this method.
>
> All .BIN files needed to have their start, end and execute addresses 
> determined ahead of time.  Then they could be LOADM'd from the Coco and 
> SAVEM'd to the virtual disk.  I only needed to copy 12 Chromasette tapes 
> for Bob, so it took an evening of time, but time well spent getting to 
> know my Coco a little bit better.
>
> Is there an easier way to do these transfers?  Something like BACKUP from 
> floppy to virtual drive would be great.
>
> -- Steve --
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Chromasette
>
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> By far the least painful way to get those files to me would, I think, be 
>> using DriveWire. As far as I know, it allows you to create psuedo 
>> floppies (disk images) at the PC end, and move files to them.
>>
>> That would seem to be much easier than to save the files to *real* 
>> floppies (which must be getting rarer than hen's teeth), and less costly, 
>> too.
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>
>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>
>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Chromasette
>>
>>
>>> Hi, Bob.  I have them all, but they are on a real Coco system.  What's 
>>> the easiest way to transfer them from my Coco hard drive to you?  I 
>>> could transfer them to diskette and post them by air to you.  I also 
>>> have Cloud-9's Drive Wire, which is really cool, but I haven't used it 
>>> for a year or so.  It might take me awhile to fire it up again. 
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>> -- Steve --
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:16 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Chromasette
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have found the tapes for some of the Chromasette issues and been given 
>>>>.CAS files for others.
>>>>
>>>> Still needed are: July 1981 to January 1982, April and May 1982 and 
>>>> October through December of 1982. I have the leaflets for all except 
>>>> the 1981 and January 1982 issues.
>>>>
>>>> If anybody has them, and would be kind enough to donate them to the 
>>>> CCSPP (Color Computer Software Preservation Project), I'd be grateful.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>>
>>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>>
>>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>>
>>>>
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