[Coco] DriveWire netdisks

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Thu Nov 19 20:01:05 EST 2009


At 11:58 PM 11/18/2009, you wrote:
>I just put together another "proof of concept" type hack for
>DriveWire.  This modification allows you to attach disk images to your
>CoCo that are located on another server, using TCP.   I just booted my
>CoCo off an image on my web server which is in Dallas TX, my Coco and
>I live in south Florida.  Pretty cool :)
>
>The repository provides a listing of available disk images and their
>description (in the future this could be done better or with more
>detail).  Choose a name from the list, and it's instantly "in the
>drive" of your CoCo.  Current version only allows reading the disks,
>but maybe something could be worked out to allow
>controlled/protected/authenticated/etc writing to the images as well.
>
>If anyone wants to play hunt the bugs with this, I put the initial
>code on my coco project page at http://aaronwolfe.com/coco
>
>-Aaron

Ya got a lot of catching up to do there, Aaron.  :)

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~ Roger Taylor





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