[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

Luis Antoniosi retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 10:22:53 EST 2012


Aaron's Sidewalk does that. But unplugging and replugging the CF card
all the time could damage the connector. Lots of pins to bend.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 5:28 PM, Luis Antoniosi wrote:
>>
>> >From the DISK BASIC, what is the benefit of accessing TC^3, DW,
>> superIDE and floppy at the same time ? To copy from one to another ?
>> What else could you do beside this ?
>>
>>
>
> Luis,
>
> To expand more on the response I sent from my phone - you have to get files
> to your SuperIDE or DrivePak, or whatever device somehow. For many it's been
> DriveWire; for others it's been CoCoNet.
>
> If you just won a rare game or utility from an eBay auction, chances are
> you'll want to either make an image of it or for backup or copy it to your
> SuperIDE. Copying to the SuperIDE is easy. I assume your WIRED program has
> made it easier to create an image on a PC by copying that disk image from
> the SuperIDE to the PC using WIRED & DriveWire - but extra steps are
> involved in the process. If the capability were in place for the OS to
> detect attached storage media from the start the whole process would be
> easier.
>
> Maybe I'm looking at all of this the wrong way. Is there a way to look at a
> SuperIDE storage device (CF card or hard drive) and manage the content of
> RS-DOS and NitrOS-9 partitions? I know Tim Franklin write CoCoPak to help
> manage the image stored on the DrivePak's SD card, which works really well
> for managing that device.
>
>
> Brian
>
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