[Coco] CoCoNet 1.05

[Roger Taylor]

Greetings all,

I've posted the latest CoCoNet Server and ROM 1.05 (for Drive Pak, 
EPROM Pak, FDC Controllers, Deluxe Wireless serial pak, etc.).  The 
16k ROM image, Disto MPROM image as well as the docs will be in the 
installation folder.

When you read the docs you'll see how simple CoCoNet works on the 
CoCo, with enhanced BASIC commands controlling everything.

http://www.coco3.com/community/download/CoCoNet105.zip

Drive Pak users might want to check often for the latest snapshot of 
the 2GB distribution card.  The problem with this is that if you 
write over your existing card you'll naturally lose anything you've 
saved or changed.  Experienced users can find a way from BASIC to 
import/export partitions from their card to keep from having to deal 
with the whole card snapshot.  More on this later.

CoCoNet currently gives bitbanger drives, 6551 drives, Drive Pak 
drives, FDC drives, simultaneously, meaning that any drive type can 
be mounted on any Drive 0-3, and if it's a Drive Pak drive, any disk 
#0-255 can be mounted from any partition which are easy to call on.

Just to make sure you read right...  Drive 0 could be a Drive Pak 
drive (for example, the 'OS9FD' partition, disk #200), Drive 1 could 
be a 6551 wired or wireless bluetooth drive, Drive 2 could be the 
bitbanger drive, and Drive 3 could be your real floppy controller.

Copying disks and files between drive types works just like you'd expect.

For the remote drives, you just mount a disk by full pathname or web 
URL.  You use a ! or @ to specify bitbanger or 6551-based pak.

I've posted these examples many times, but here's another just off 
the top of my head.

DRIVE 0,!"http://www.coco3.com/somedisk.dsk"    mount a web disk on Drive 0
DRIVE 1,#230   mount Drive Pak disk #230 in the current partition
BACKUP 0 TO 1    copy the web disk to the Drive Pak

Or.... how about turning on your CoCo to a premounted remote PC disk 
and have it auto-boot into OS-9 or a menu for the Disk BASIC disk?

Premounted web disks will be added to the CoCoNet Server 1.06 in a few days.

There's just too many ideas but... you get the idea.  :)

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~ Roger Taylor