[Coco] USB devices

[Ray Watts]

James,  I am going to keep this exchange on the public forum in case 
there are a few Mac owners in the same boat as me.  Just to make sure we 
are speaking the same language, here is the background.  I purchased 
Super SCSI and the CD-ROM package from Mark about a year ago.  The 
following exchange took place between myself and Boisy at that time:

RAY - "Would I have the capability to burn a CD on my Mac that would 
operate on a CoCo?"
BOISY - "Yes.  That's how I did it exactly, using Toast on my PowerBook 
G4 running Mac OS X.  To build the content for the CD, you actually need 
to get the os9tools software at sourceforge.net.  These tools compile 
for Mac/Linux/Windows and allow you to build os-9 disk images and copy 
files to those images.  The image is then brought into Toast and then 
burnt RAW (caps mine, rw) onto a CD.  That CD can then be run on the 
CoCo" (under SuperSCSI).

I was busy and dropped the subject, however, the question arose as to 
how a Mac Classic OS owner could compile and use the os9tools without a 
supporting GUI or a terminal mode.  I even tried to emulate a terminal 
mode with AppleScript.  It worked, but not for this purpose.  I suppose 
that I might try using the Command Line Mode on my Windows 2000 Pro 
emulator for os9tools, then copy the files to the Mac.

Now for the burning with Toast Lite.  I'm not sure what Boisy meant by 
"burnt raw" unless he is referring simply to the data burning mode. 
There is no support for any other data type.  It seems you are familiar 
with the situation and that, indeed, is the case.

So, my best bet is to massage my data for the CD on my Windows emulator, 
then copy it to the Mac to be burnt in the normal data mode mode of 
Toast Lite.  Is this what you had in mind in your reply?

Cheers,  Griz
 
James Dessart wrote:

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> On 23-Nov-04, at 3:32 PM, Ray Watts wrote:
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>> BTW - While we're on this subject.  Boisy described to me how to 
>> write to a CD on my Mac for playback on a CoCo about a year ago.  
>> Unforch, he assumed I had OSX.x and the full Toast burning utility.  
>> I only have OS9.1 and Toast Lite (OEM with the burner).  Do you, or 
>> anyone else, know how this can be done?  I think I can make the 
>> Windows 2000 see the burner.  Is there a CHEAP Windows burning 
>> utility that will allow me to do this?
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> Actually, Toast should be able to do it, even Toast lite, I think.
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> James
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