[Coco] Coco to PC cable

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:57 AM 3/10/2009, you wrote:
>Depends on how you want to do it.
>If you can burn an EPROM or buy a ROM pak from Cloud 9, you can use 
>DriveWire.  The documentation for how to build a DriveWire cable is 
>in the DriveWire 3  Specification document in the "Support" section 
>of the Cloud 9 web site.  Or you could buy a cable from them.  I've 
>just downloaded DriveWire 3, burned it onto an EPROM, soldered up a 
>cable, and got it running.  It's very cool.  There are servers for 
>MS-Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.
>
>Roger Taylor has a program that will convert a file to an audio file 
>which can be CLOADed into the CoCo's cassette port.  I think you can 
>also produce such a file using a CoCo emulator running on a modern PC.
>Then you just need a CoCo cassette cable.  Roger also sells a ROM 
>pak that contains a program similar to DriveWire, as well as a 
>bluetooth wireless serial interface.

CoCoNet hasn't been released yet, but it will be free as a download 
and I'll sell EPROM copies of the client for a small fee.  The ROM 
can drop in the bluetooth pak and give the CoCo a wireless virtual 
floppy drive system on powerup, not to mention HTTP requests and 
remote printing support.

I envy Bill in that he's showed more interest in his CoCo in two 
weeks than a lot of people here show over months or a year.  Bill, 
I'm not sure if you're a previous CoCoNut rediscovering the community 
or just a newcomer, but either way there's no turning back now.. 
you're one of us now.  :)


-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com