[Coco] CoCo -> PC Redux

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 20:57:20 EST 2013


On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Frank Swygert wrote:

>  I've been poking 'round the net (and Files Area) looking for ideas on 
> transferring CoCo stuff to the PC probably not visa-versa, but you never 
> know.  I have a Windows 95 machine with 5"  & 3" floppies, Enet and, 
> obviously serial.  I also have a Vista Laptop with a wireless USB <-> Serial 
> virtual (RF) serial link and HyperTerminal.
>
> Searching for PC Transfer, I see references to "Jeff's PORT", and some other 
> stuff... but it's hard following some of the threads.
>
> So, assuming I've given enough info...  Comments?
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>
> Highly edited your post! Luis pointed out is COCODSKUTIL. You can also try 
> Drivewire. It runs on the PC and makes it a file server for the CoCo, so you 
> can transfer files to a virtual disk on the PC then should be able to read 
> them from the PC. I don't recall what people use to read the files on the PC 
> side, I'm sure someone more familiar with Driewire will jump in!

The 'toolshed' utilities are great for moving files back and forth between 
disk images and the local machine's filesystem.  That said, I do not know 
if Windows builds are still available.



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