[Coco] DW4 with CoCo 2

[Mike Rowen]

The cable is available at cloud9tech or you can build one yourself. You do not need a floppy or controller or physical disk (unless you wish to). You do load HDBDOS, which can be done easily through the casette cable by playing the DW provided audio file. It takes about 30 seconds.

I run DW4 server on a Linux laptop. I am unaware of any limitations with Windows versions, though there may be some. It also runs on MacOS.

You will need either a serial port on your PC or a USB to RS-232 serial adapter.

It really is worth the time to set it up. There is a huge number of files on the Internet in dsk format.

I primarily use my DW with NitrOS9 and you can boot right from the PC with no floppy system. DW includes NitrOS9 images for this purpose.

You could also autoload HDBDOS from a ROM or a SuperIDE flash or a floppy disk if you desired. Lots of options. However, being able to access your PC with bare minimum hardware is a great feature of DW.

Cheers,
-Mike

On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:16 PM, haywire666 at aol.com wrote:

> Yeah me too but I'm confused a bit. Like where do I get the cable and does it not work with windows vista and 7 and only xp?
> do I need a floppy disk controller for my coco? I don't have one now but I don't want to do the tape load thing and does the disk controller
> have to be hd dos or whatever I've heard mentioned or can it be a regular radio shack one?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 10:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DW4 with CoCo 2
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> One of these days, I need to get DW set up.
> 
> Bruce W.
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> ============================
> 
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Mike Rowen 
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>  Just to confirm, I have it working as desired now. I set the HDBDOSmode to
>  true under Advanced Settings and now the drives behave like typical floppy
>  disks. Thanks.
> 
>  Cheers,
>  -Mike
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