[Coco] [Color Computer] Got my Coco out of mothballs...

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

Al, we all gave you options. Did you find the wimgtool ? If not here is:

https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/dropbox/wimgtool.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

Just use it, open a DSK and insert any file you want through the Image
menu. But you need to specify the file properties. For a ROM is a raw
binary...

For os9 images you need to rename them to .os9




On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>wrote:

> Why is it nobody understands what I want to do?
>
> I want to take a file, such as the Drivewire ROM image, that exists on the
> PC as a file, and get that file over to the Coco.
>
> I'd like a Windows based program like Explorer that will let you have a
> two window display, one side being the PC, and the other being a Coco .dsk
> image. Then, you can copy files back and forth, make a new Coco .dsk image,
> delete files on either side, rename files on either side, copy or move
> files from one side to the other.
>
> Everything I've found is either confusing, or DOS only.
>
> I can already write Coco disks on my Coco. I don't have 5.25" drives on
> any of my PCs, except my XT which is not on my network, and without 640k, I
> can't Laplink stuff to it.
>
> There are no USB solutions for writing 5.25" disks on a modern PC.
>
> Not all modern PCs even support having a 5.25" drive internally.
>
> All I want is to be able to move files into and out of Coco .dsk images
> easily.
>
> Is that so much to ask for?
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Brian Blake
>
> Al,
>
> VCC with the fdrawcmd.sys driver installed will write dsk images to a
> REAL floppy drive.
>
> Also, CoCoDisk (get it here <http://www.nitros9.org/howto.**html<http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html>>),
> with
> the same driver, will do this - and is easier to set up.
>
> Brian
>
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