[Coco] Creating a Coco Floppy in DOS

[t.fadden at cox.net]

If you can't find the utility to make rsdos disks from pc dos you could do this.

1. connect pc to coco via serial connection start com program on pc, and com program on coco. 

2. Make sure the communication paramaters are the same, use null-modem cable, etc. What you type on one should show up on the other.

3. start sending the file on the pc, and start receiving on the coco. 

I do something similar with os9 successfully. I haven't used an rsdos com program, but I would assume that it writes the downloaded file to disk.  Search of a pc com program that does xmodem, ymodem, or zmodem or all three.  At least one of these should be available with the rsdos com program.



---- Michael Robinson <deemcr at robinson-west.com> wrote: 

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:22 -0700, Bill Barnes wrote:
> I seem to remember there was a program that was written for the CoCo that allowed the reading and writing of a 40ss 5.25" Floppy.
> 
> I also know there were some programs for the PC (DOS) That allowed reading and writing of a CoCo disk... Guess I'll hafta dig around my disks and pray that they are readable (and hope I didnt lose it so I can get the name of it for you.

MESS had an image tool that allowed me to copy the files from the
drivewire.dsk image to my hard drive on my PC.  Trouble is, how do
I copy these files to a COCO formatted 5.25" disk?


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