[Coco] dw 3

[Luis Fernandez]

Thanks Aaron Wolfe

I feel a little lost.

They talk about technical things that I understand them, but there must be people who need more basic things easier

I'd like to try my editor

and when you see

you tell me
if you know better?
evidence of improvements to make, want?

Translated with google

> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:12:05 -0500
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] dw 3
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Luis Fernandez <luis45ccs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Amigos no entiendo bien ingles y soy nuevo en la listatal vez no tenga que ver con lo que estan diciendo
> > pero he construido en dos semanas una utilidad integrada en windows para ver y revisar DSKno vi ninguna buenatoolshed hace muchas cosas pero en comandos
> > Proximamente la publicare
> > Esta en fase beta 0,8
> > Copia de PC COCO y viceversa, arrastrando y soltandoFormatea , desfracmenta, ordena DSK.
> > Revisa errores de FAT
> > VER Track Y sectors como en coco pantalla verde
> > Convierte BAS BIN a ASC y viceversa
> > Ve y edita textos en DSK
> > View and edit HEX DSK
> > Borra PC y DSK
> > PROXIMAMENTE OS9 y NITRO, 40 tarck, 80 tack y DD
> >
> 
> Hablo espanol solo un poco, pero suena bien para mi :)
> 
> 
> 
> >> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:49:03 -0500
> >> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> >> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] dw 3
> >>
> >> >
> >> > My thoughts exactly. A lot of this is possible via toolshed but it would be
> >> > nice. :-) While I'm dreaming (:-)) it would be nice to be able use the ide
> >>
> >> I think this is already all possible using the dw4 mode.  If it is
> >> not, I will do everything I can to make it possible and easy for you,
> >> but I need to understand what is desired.  I am struggling here :)
> >>
> >> > or scsi version of hdbdos and still have access to drivewire disks. Alas, I've
> >> > mentioned that to Boisy and his response was along the line of no way, ain't
> >> > happening. (then he spent the next 15min going into painful detail on why it
> >> > couldn't happen.) I'm sure I'll be set straight if I'm wrong but the primary
> >> > issue had to do with the size of the rom. My contention is that a coco3 comes
> >> > with 128K of ram with only 64K available directly via rs/hdb dos. The superide
> >> > comes with 4 virtual roms and the ability to access 256 "floppies" or more
> >> >  directly from a CF card. I often think that with creative page switching of ram
> >> > that it can all be loaded in ram and the drivewire/ide/scsi parts of the code
> >> > switched in and out as needed. Of course as time goes on when using my actual
> >> > coco at home I tend to use drivewire and when away from home the CF card so it's
> >> > more of a hassle then anything.
> >> >
> >>
> >> This is a limitation, but there are ways to deal with it.  What I do
> >> with the SuperIDE is to put HDBDOS for harddrives in rom slot 0 and
> >> HDBDOS for DriveWire in slot 3.  On power up, we are in hard drive
> >> mode.  I have a tiny basic program on disk 0 of the DECB partition on
> >> the CF card that switches to the HDBDOS for DW:
> >>
> >> 10 poke &hff59,3
> >> 20 poke 113,0
> >> 30 dload
> >>
> >> Now, if I want to use DW in OS9, I just power on and type DOS.. my OS9
> >> system loads off the superide's CF card and loads the DW drivers.  If
> >> I want to use DW in BASIC (or boot OS9 from DW), i power on and type:
> >> RUN"DW"  (the program above).  The ROM is switched to HDBDOS/DW and
> >> the coco resets instantly.  Ready to go in DW mode.
> >>
> >> The only situation this doesn't allow is copying from drivewire disks
> >> to superIDE/cf disks in BASIC.  In OS9, you can do this easily.  There
> >> is a way to mount your DECB disk partition under OS9 and then copy the
> >> DriveWire disks to CF slots, which would solve the problem if I could
> >> figure out how to make that trick work :)
> >>
> >>
> >> > The Other Frank
> >> >
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