[Coco] save to disk

[Mike Rowen]

This is the idea. I recommend that you mount the DW version of HDBDOS (the .dsk file) as disk 4 in DW then Backup 4 to 0.

On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:28 AM, "Robert Hermanek" <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:

> I think the idea is:
> 
> 1)  Get HDB-DOS for drivewire running on your coco any way, in your case via the cassette and cloadm
> 2)  Have the drivewire server running on your PC
> 3)  Mount a DSK file in drivewire server that contains a complete image of a HDB-DOS floppy disk.  Mount the DSK as a drive 1
> 4)  From the coco, access the DSK image using commands such as
> 
> DRIVE OFF 0
>   this tells hdb-dos to access physical drive 0 on coco
> 
> BACKUP 1 to 0
> 
> If the DSK image is mounted as drive 1, then this will copy the contents of the DSK to a physical disk inserted in drive 0.
> 
> You may need to DSKINI 0 if it is unformatted.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk
> 
> 
>> Yeah, but it's asking for all the machine language addresses, start, finish,
>> and exec. I don't know those.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
>> Behalf Of Mike Rowen
>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:12 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] save to disk
>> 
>> If you boot HDBDOS via the cassette port, you can then mount the dsk in DW
>> and copy it to an actual floppy. From then on you could boot it from floppy
>> instead of the cassette cable.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -Mike
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 10:48 AM, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I got HDBDOSC3 loaded on my Coco3, but I cannot get it saved to disk.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Help, please, before I have a  power hiccup
>>> 
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