[Coco] Wireless Drive Pak

[Patrick Wilson]

Roger,
 
Two things.    How much for the wireless pak, and sign me up for one please.....
 
THanks,
 
Pat Wilson

--- On Wed, 7/13/11, Roger Taylor <taylor at newfoal.com> wrote:


From: Roger Taylor <taylor at newfoal.com>
Subject: [Coco] Wireless Drive Pak
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 8:09 PM



I've found a suitable wireless module that can be used to keep producing my "Wireless Pak", a.k.a Wireless Drive Pak.  Even though CoCoNet 1.x is set up to detect the A7 EB301 bluetooth module and initiate a connection to the PC when the CoCo is turned on, the new module can be used without much trouble.

When the CoCo is turned on with this kind of pak, it will report no connection is found to the PC and attempt to auto-boot to either your real floppy system or bitbanger cable drive, etc.

After the CoCoNet server is started on your PC, you can warm-boot your CoCo using the Ctrl-Alt Reset combo and then CoCoNet will detect the wireless connection for Drive 0 and all is well.

I still have 50+ wireless pak boards but they can be used for other types of serial paks as well.  If there's enough interest in the wireless pak again, after I finish the Drive Pak back orders I will produce more wireless paks.  Only this time, CoCoNet 2.0 can be used to make the wireless pak act like a MicroSD Drive Pak, because I'm working on emulating the Drive Pak protocol in the CoCoNet server, so the MicroSD card image (.img file) can be used with the wireless pak, too.

This means no need to mount disks by PC pathname anymore which is a pain.

Current EB301 Wireless Pak users will be able to swap out their EPROM and turn it into a Wireless Drive Pak.

Hang in there.


-- ~ Roger Taylor


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