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

[Mark Ormond]

I've just been using the dos command copy /b disk1.dsk+disk2.dsk+disk3.dsk+dsk4.dsk output.vhd.
Just write a quick batch file, and then it's really easy to edit your selection later.

It's quick and works well.

I had used disks sets at one time and was looking for it again tonight.
I downloaded the latest drivewire and clicked on documentation. And look what I found.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drivewireserver/index.php?title=Using_DriveWire#Disk_Sets

And that's why I was confused that it wasn't working.

Thanks for the quick response!

Later,
dabone

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:57 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire disk sets??? Quick help please.


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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