[Coco] Drivewire disk sets??? Quick help please.

[Bill Pierce]

Mark,
Read the reply from Aaron about the "disksets" feature being dropped.

But, if you want access to all the disks from the Coco, there is a solution. Just set up a vhd with the disks copied to the HDBDOS virtual disks. There are several ways to do this, but I find it quicker to do it in VCC where I can overclock everything and do the backups fast. You just set DRIVEOFF and the drive 0-3 will be where you mount the dsk images. Then just use BACKUP 0 to 4-255 to copy the disks one at a time to the other virtual drives. When you are done in VCC, just either eject the VHD in VCC or kill VCC itself as Drivewire will not mount a VHD while VCC has it in memory. Then load the VHD into Drivewire GUI and load and run as normal... except for having 255 drives. :-)

Then you'll be able to use the new SideKick program to access all the games

I know Aaron will tell you you can do all this straight from DW, but it's a lot slower than in VCC.

Hope this helps
Bill

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ormond <markormond at mtxsystems.com>
To: Coco <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 10:15 pm
Subject: [Coco] Drivewire disk sets??? Quick help please.


Ok, I'm confused, where do I put the diskset (Which xml file and what section?).


Example diskset.

<diskset>
<Name>Coco2Games</Name>
<disk>
  <drive>0</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\side.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>1</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES01.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>2</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES02.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>3</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES03.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>4</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES04.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>5</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES05.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>6</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES06.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>7</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES07.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>8</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES08.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>9</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES09.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>10</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES10.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>11</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES11.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>12</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES12.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>13</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES13.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>14</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES14.DSK</path>
</disk>
<disk>
  <drive>15</drive>
  <path>C:\cocogames\Coco2\GAMES15.DSK</path>
</disk>
</diskset>



Thanks!

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