[Coco] Drivewire 3 Question

Fri Nov 19 14:30:10 EST 2010

It did the same thing at command prompt. I was not able to find any documentation and I am guessing I am supposed to run these at a command prompt with a <file name> -command or number letter combo but still unsure.

--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com> wrote:

From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 2:19 PM

The toolshed tools all run from a command prompt, so that's why you're seeing the screen "flash" when you run them from Explorer. Open a command prompt (or just type "cmd" in the search bar in the Start window and press ENTER), then run the toolshed tools from there.

-----Original Message----- From: Derek
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:00 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question

Got toolshed but Windows 7 is giving me fits when I run any of the utilities it flashes like I am trying to run an old DOS program. The docs said to copy them to a place in my path so I tried to copy them to c:\ root and also to my windows directory, tried compatibility modes too.

I feel so stupid asking but anyone have any experience with toolshed and Windows 7?

Thank you

--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:

From: Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:41 PM

I haven't looked at toolshed lately so my memory may be flawed but that ability should
exist as part of toolshed.

The Other Frank

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:02:15PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> I could write a small utility to load and save individual .DSK files
> in and out of a 256 disk virtual image file, if that would help.
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > I mount the HD.dsk image in DW3 Slot number 3. And that .dsk image has > drive letters assigned1 to 255.  So I can switch between them by using > DRIVE # command. When I use a real coco disk and use the HGB-DOS Drive > on-Off command I can make it so that the real Coco disk drive is > assigned drive 0 so that makes it easy to copy real disks to the virtual > image using the backup command backup 0 to 20 for example.
> >
> > What the problem I have is with multiple disk images mounted in DW3 is > that the HD disk image has drives 0 to 255 and the other virtual floppy > disk image I mount in another DW3 slot is looked at as drive 0 as well. > So there is a conflict when working with multiple virtual images in DW3 > itself.
> >
> > I will check out the utility link you sent and see. thank you!
> >
> >
> >
> > ** Mistrust Authority. Promote Decentralization **
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire 3 Question
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 9:58 AM
> >
> > The decb.exe utility should allow you to copy files from your hd .dsk > file
> > and your PC OS. Then you could mount these images separately in DW. Hope
> > this helps. I may be misunderstanding what you're attempting to do > though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Mike
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I re-read your message, Derek. Do you have a virtual HD that's has .dsk
> >> files in it when you do a directory?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well after trying for a few days I have broken down and decided to ask >>> for
> >>> help.
> >>>
> >>> I have Drivewire 3 hooked up and running on my Coco 3. I have a >>> virtual
> >>> .dsk disk image that DW3 sees as a virtual HD with the 255 seperate >>> virtual
> >>> disks in the file. I have been able to get DW3 to copy back and forth >>> with
> >>> my real Coco disk drives after I got the commands figured out.
> >>>
> >>> What I want to do and cant seem to get done is copying between virtual
> >>> disk images mounted in DW3 server software. So I can take .dsk images >>> and
> >>> copy the games over to the virtual HD image file.
> >>>
> >>> Right now I am mounting a disk image, copying to a real floppy disk, >>> then
> >>> mounting the virtual HD image and copying from the real floppy to the >>> HD
> >>> disk image.
> >>>
> >>> I am doing all this in RS-DOS not in OS-9.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you
> >>>
> >>> Derek
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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