[Coco] Creating a Coco Floppy in DOS

John T Chasteen johnchasteen.2 at juno.com
Tue Sep 16 16:59:51 EDT 2008


With the serial cable, do I have to switch the send anf receive leads on
one end?

John
 
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:59:16 -0400 <t.fadden at cox.net> writes:
> If you can't find the utility to make rsdos disks from pc dos you 
> could do this.
> 
> 1. connect pc to coco via serial connection start com program on pc, 
> and com program on coco. 
> 
> 2. Make sure the communication paramaters are the same, use 
> null-modem cable, etc. What you type on one should show up on the 
> other.
> 
> 3. start sending the file on the pc, and start receiving on the 
> coco. 
> 
> I do something similar with os9 successfully. I haven't used an 
> rsdos com program, but I would assume that it writes the downloaded 
> file to disk.  Search of a pc com program that does xmodem, ymodem, 
> or zmodem or all three.  At least one of these should be available 
> with the rsdos com program.
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Michael Robinson <deemcr at robinson-west.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 22:22 -0700, Bill Barnes wrote:
> > I seem to remember there was a program that was written for the 
> CoCo that allowed the reading and writing of a 40ss 5.25" Floppy.
> > 
> > I also know there were some programs for the PC (DOS) That allowed 
> reading and writing of a CoCo disk... Guess I'll hafta dig around my 
> disks and pray that they are readable (and hope I didnt lose it so I 
> can get the name of it for you.
> 
> MESS had an image tool that allowed me to copy the files from the
> drivewire.dsk image to my hard drive on my PC.  Trouble is, how do
> I copy these files to a COCO formatted 5.25" disk?
> 
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