[Coco] CoCoNet status

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:09 AM 12/20/2008, you wrote:
>I was thinking of getting a Drive Wire set up but this sounds like 
>it will do what Drivewire does and more. Is this true or am I making 
>a wrong assumption. My main goal would be to mount RS-DOS and OS-9 
>disk images saved on my PC, have them be read and write enabled 
>while also being able to use my Real Floppy drives on my coco III at 
>the same time. Will CoCoNet do all this?


Yes, CoCoNet includes virtual drives @ 57600 bps and 115200 bps.  You 
mount them from the CoCo so you won't have to move back and forth 
between the CoCo and PC.  You can mount by pathname which can be the 
PC path to the .dsk file or a web URL.  Web disks are copied to a 
local disk so if you write to them, you're writing to your own copy 
of the disk.  Writing to the web copy isn't possible.  I'm working to 
put a choose and click menu in which would let you explore the PC 
directories similar to how the PORT.EXE program does.  You'd be able 
to use the arrow keys and SPACE or ENTER to navigate around and mount 
disks by hitting 0-3 next to the entry.

The physical drives can be turned on and off.  Only the standard 4 
drives are supported at this time since CoCoNet doesn't attempt to 
super-patch the Disk ROM that far.  I know how, but it would go 
beyond the scope of what I want the system to do.  Anyone can further 
patch if they want to.


-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com