[Coco] Creating a Coco Floppy in DOS

[Tim Fadden]

If you are making a cable, yes you need to swap the send and receive.  
Do a google search for NULL modem cable.  There are many variaties you 
can make.  Yo can probably get buy with the simplest and use xon-xoff  
flow control. If you need hardware flow controle, you will need a full 
blown null modem cable.  You can purchase null modem adapters, and 
cables most anywhere.  these work great for this. That would probably be 
best.


John T Chasteen wrote:
> 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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