[Coco] Drive Wire

Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado marcus.chiado at gmail.com
Thu May 31 10:50:28 EDT 2007


I copied at least two PitStop II image files to actual floppies, via
DriveWire, and then tried to load both. Unfortunately, it didn´t work
either.

:-(



2007/5/31, Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>:
> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the kind words.  Actually, it's a shame that PitStop II
> doesn't work with DriveWire, not the other way around.  For whatever
> reason, some game designers chose to ignore Tandy's strong
> recommendations to stay within the guidelines and use DSKCON for disk
> I/O.  Had they done that, then they would have worked with DriveWire
> without any reservations.
>
> It would be valuable if someone could get these games to use the
> DSKCON routine instead of their own custom WD1793 disk controller code.
>
> Boisy



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