[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

[Chris Osborn]

I don't have a disk drive or any cartridges. Just a CoCo2 and a cassette cable and a serial cable.

On Sep 21, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Al Hartman wrote:

> You don't need a ROM to load a Drivewire image via the cassette port. Having one in a Cartridge or in your disk controller just is more convenient.
> 
> There's a video on Youtube of someone demonstrating Drivewire, and starting up the Coco from an image through the cassette port. If you have a floppy drive, I'd recommend immediately creating a floppy with the floppy version of HDBDOS untill you get a ROM for your disk controller. There's one on eBay for a Coco 2, currently selling for $9.95 I think.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
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> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Osborn
> 
> On Sep 21, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> 
>> You need the HDBDOS ROM for Drivewire. That means you will need either 1) a disk controller where the ROM can replace the normal disk ROM, 2) a copy of the ROM that can be LOADMed into memory, or 3) a cassette version of the ROM that can be CLOADMed from tape.
> 
> Ok, where do I get the ROM that I can CLOADM? Will DriveWire handle sending it out as audio for the cassette port?
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