[Coco] Installing DW4 on Linux mint

[Al Hartman]

You can buy pre-wired cassette cables on eBay if you don't want to wire one up yourself...

-[ Al ]-
On 6/24/2017 9:46:20 AM, George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:
I had a brain fart when I wrote the previous message. To get Nitros9
onto a disk for the CC3, I need to wire the coco end of the cable for
the cassette input from the PC audio out. Then I can cloadm HDBDOS to
initially use DW4 to download Nitros9. Then I will be good to go.
Several steps to go. Not too bad, really. The main important thing is
DW. I have to get it onto the coco in order to use it.


On 06/24/2017 01:02 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
>> George Ramsower georgera at gvtc.com
>> Fri Jun 23 21:39:10 EDT 2017
>>
>> I haven't actually tried it on my Coco3 yet. I was thinking it would
>> not work correctly after all the error messages when I ran it the first
>> few times after another download. Now I need to get a regular serial
>> connection going so I can download that other file for RSDOS that will
>> enable me to use DW4 and download a Nitros9 for this CC3. Many more
>> steps. I think I have the wiring on the PC end ready. Now I need to find
>> a way to get an RS232 to work on that CC3. That will be the toughest
>> thing to accomplish.
> Why would that be hard? You don’t need an RS232 pack for Drivewire, it uses the serial port that is built in to the CoCo 3, you just need a cable and a serial port on your Linux Mint server.
>


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