[Coco] RTSI archive

[Bill Pierce]

John,
The directions for Drivewire are in the docs linked on Aaron's site
But basically, you connect the Coco serial port to the PC's serial port. From what you described, I doubt your PC would have one. The answer is to buy a USB 2 DB-9 adapter. You wiil then need a special cable with a Coco serial plug on one end, and a DB-9 on the other. The wiring diagram is in the Drivewire docs (I think) or you can buy the cable from Cloud9 premade.
As I said, all the DW instructions are in the docs linked on the Drivewire website

Bill P

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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: johnchasteen <johnchasteen at juno.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 2:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] RTSI archive


Thanks Bill P
I do have the drivewire  cables so I am reeeealy interested in getting
the VHD unit.
How does this interface with the PC? I have USB , SD and HD inputs on my
Laptop computer.
I sure am glad that I am retired... lots of time to play

John C

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:34:53 -0400 (EDT) Bill Pierce
<ooogalapasooo at aol.com> writes:
> 
> John,
> VHD is the virtual hard drive format used by the emulators as well 
> as by drivewire (on a real Coco). If you haven't heard about 
> Drivewire, then go to my site and go to the links. Look for 
> CocoCoding. From there goto Aaron's Tools and look for Drivewire... 
> it's the best thing since sex..... well maybe not... hmmmm... I seem 
> to spend more time on Drivewire than.... :-)
> 
> Bill P> 
> 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: johnchasteen <johnchasteen at juno.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 2:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] RTSI archive
> 
> 
> Thanks for the information Bill
> I am a little behind with the coco3.
> What is a VHD ? is it like a CF unit?
> I have a Cloud9 unit that uses CF units.
> Right now I am having trouble getting the 5.25 in Floppy drives
> operational
> so I am interested in other alternatives.
> I just visited your web site and see you have a lot of coco 
> resources.
> 
> John
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Bill Pierce
> <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> writes:
> > 
> > Hi Guys,
> > Would anyone be interested in the RTSI Archives on a VHD?
> > I have the complete archiv (as of a few months ago), OS9 and RSDOS 
> 
> > on a 130meg vhd. (offset $05A000)
> > The OS9 partition has been completely decompressed and structured 
> 
> > into directories.
> > The RSDOS partition is "as is" on RTSI and stored on drives 4 to 
> 62. 
> > All DRIVEs are labeled "Programming", :Games" etc.. for easier 
> > searching.
> > If anyone is interested, I'll post it on my dropbox and leave ahe
> information. link 
> > here and on my site
> > I'm also working on another one of just games.. RSDOS and OS9 and 
> 
> > one for Apps. These will be like backups to make real disks or dsk. 
> 
> > The OS9 disks (directories) will include the bootfiles as well as 
> a 
> > copy of the kernel for making a bootable disk like the original.
> > 
> > Bill P
> > 
> > Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Bill Pierce
> > ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> > 
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