[Coco] Your stock CoCo is DriveWire-ready out-of-the-box (was: DriveWire for dummies?)

[Boisy G. Pitre]

We need a single source of information, a web page, that enumerates the different ways to get a stock CoCo up and running with DriveWire.  Here are the ways I can think of, in increasingly more difficult order:

1. Using the Cassette Loader
2. Using a ROM Pak
3. Using a Disk Controller

I talked with Jim Hathaway and he's willing to host such a page.

On Dec 23, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Jeremy Michea wrote:

> No I have no problem getting the drivewire cable. I just want to make sure I get all the right equipment at once whether from cloud 9 or otherwise. I'm still just confused on if its just the drivewire cable only or if I need a rom pak to go with it.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Lesage" <hyperfrog at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Your stock CoCo is DriveWire-ready out-of-the-box (was: DriveWire for dummies?)
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>> Jeremy Michea wrote:
>>> Could the cassette cable be used for this or must it be the actual drivewire cable?
>> No. You're missing the point. I was explaining how HDB-DOS for DriveWire could be downloaded into the CoCo's RAM. If you want to use DriveWire, you *will* need a serial cable, so why not use in the first place to load HDB-DOS?
>> 
>> If all you have is a cassette-recorder cable and are not willing to invest $10 into a serial cable ($3 if you build it), then your only option is to use some cassette-recorder simulating software... which I never bothered to mess with.
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