[Coco] DriveWire 3

[Mike Rowen]

http://www.cloud9tech.com/

They sell the serial cable.

On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:28 AM, "Leonard Miller" <leonard236 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can purchase the drivewire cable?  
> 
> Leonard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of K. Pruitt
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:44 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 3
> 
> Thanks a bunch, Willard, that works great.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 3
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 02:04:22PM -0800, K. Pruitt wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to create an actual physical coco disk to replace cloading
>>> the wav file from the host pc?
>> 
>> Possible, but somewhat painful.  Since I've already done it, get
>> http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/coco/hdbdw3boot.zip
>> 
>> Write this to a physical disk (or just copy the files to a physical
>> disk, there's no magical hidden stuff)  and RUN"HDBDOS
>> 
>> Real credit to Robert Gault who shows the way!  I don't seem to have
>> the exact URL on hand but it's the cart2ram stuff on his page.
>> 
>> In addition to Gault's stuff, I had to wrap a proper DECB .BIN header
>> and footer around the .ROM file, which is a raw binary dump.
>> 
>> If your drivewire-presented disks have both an OS9 filesystem and an
>> HDBDOS "partition" you may need to mess with the offset pokes in
>> HDBDOS.BAS.  I'm afraid I can't help you with that...
>> 
>> Willard
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>> Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
>> Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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>> -- R.E. Howard
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