[Coco] Drivewire VHD's

Mon Apr 16 11:25:07 EDT 2012

Sorry about not being available much Luis... I've just been really busy in the studo (for a change) and money wins out over all. It should calm down soon unless I get some more calls. This time of the year is good for recording and live sound as this is a beach area and summer is alost here. I have been working on some things for Orchestra90 though (when I have time). The file format is simple. binary file in ascii format. The first byte of each line has the hi-bit set and there's no CR's. As for the decoding of actual orchestra90 code... it's all in the manual and since the file is ascii, there are no "hidden" tokens or anything like that. I'll be converting all those "other" orch90 files to Coco format soon, I just want to get through with my Lyra and Umuse3 files first. I have to convert them to General Midi so they will play on most modern PCs through Drivewire. I know Aaron has provided Drivewire with filters for various midi keyboards, they still sound better when run straight GM.

Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3 
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
Bill Pierce
ooogalapasooo at aol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>
To: COCO <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 3:33 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire VHD's

ear Bill
 think my utility can help with that, and read and OS9 DECB serious just need 
wo good reads VHD,
he OS9 partition and 256 discs DECB, could pass each other, and soon a few 
isks other.
Could make routines to copy 100 files and distribute them in the best way 
arranging files as much as possible to fill the disks) on multiple disks, 
ffortless and much more.
Would not that comfortable?,
till can not move files directly from one disk to another, but it will make

ill do not you help me?, We have not spoken long ago?
he help wanted was you would explain the different formats Orchestra, and guess 
everal, 
nd my utility sees them both as asc bin format, I want to be heard as well 
with the drivers or prefer directly).

he book is scanned because I made a dis-assembler for the BIN, and an assembler 
or ASM sources (should stop inventing and out already) but never finish ...
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oCoDskUtilPack V 1.0.10.zip  
ttp://cococoding.com/cocodskutil/ Thank Aaron Wolfe
y personal blog: http://www.luis45ccs.blogspot.com
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> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
 From: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:44:45 -0400
 Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire VHD's

 I may be posting something sililar to what you are referring to on my website 
below) soon. I have been trying to organize different VHDs into "themes" Games, 
pps, Programming, Music ect... If it turns out like I want, I will be linking 
hem on DaBarnStudio site to share with others. I know how hard it is to gather 
ll the stuff together and I've been at it (downloading) for awhile and have 
athered most of everything that's out there. The biggest problem is it seems 
very program (especially pre-"/DD" days) has it's own agenda as to where 
upport files should be. Some can be patched, some already have patches, some 
ust "run" like they should. Then there's the bootfiles...It seems like half the 
oftware requires something special in it's boot... VRN, Nil, Midi, VDG, /R0, 
ct... it get's annoying at the least.

 What I'm tryng to do, is to create VHDs with the RSDOS and OS9 themes on the 
ame VHD. RSDOS Vdisk 255 will have the OS9 boot required to run everything on 
he OS9 partition. I'm finding a lot of RSDOS software will not run (or run 
ell) in HDBDOS because of the software using direct access to disk routines and 
ther stuff that was modified. Then you run into the problem of the software 
hard coded" to access drives 0-3. Some can be patched pretty easily for 0-255, 
ome cannot. BUT, having access to the disks, all on one VHD makes it easy to 
opy it to a real disk and run it from standard RSDOS. Basic programs are 
sually the easiest to fix. Just change a few lines of code and it's good to go.

 Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3 
 https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
 Bill Pierce
 ooogalapasooo at aol.com

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
 To: Coco <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
 Sent: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 1:12 pm
 Subject: [Coco] Drivewire VHD's

 Is there a site with VHD's pre done for Drivewire?
 'm looking for game collections, etc.
 Or, is there an easy way to convert the files from a drivepak image to a 
ormat 
 ompatible with drivewire?

 hanks,
 ater,
 abone
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