[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

[Chad H]

Very Nice!  Have to figure out how to Get DW4 up and going on Win'98 first
or else may have to switch to a XP box and retry.

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Tormod Volden
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:33 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> I agree, there is a real need for a complete package. The HDBDOS roms have
gone through very little change in the past couple of years so I would say
they're "stable" and need a home. I too have searched high and low to find a
complte set of roms.
> I understand Aaron not offering the roms or other stuff, but DW4 is his
only software. HDBDOS is actually Boisy's though he's released it to open
source. And that's where it sits.... as source in the toolshed repository,
not even built when you build toolshed.

Yes, HDB-DOS's home is currently in toolshed. Toolshed has many different
things. When you "build toolshed" as Bill refers to, you just build the host
computer/PC tools for Windows/etc. Stuff that should run on the CoCo is not
built by the "normal" makefile. To build for instance HDB-DOS, you have to
go to the hdbdos folder and run "make". The prerequisite for building
HDB-DOS is to have the lwasm assembler from LWTOOLS, plus the "tools" if you
want to make WAV and disk images. This is a very different process from
building the "tools" so that's why they are separated.

For your convenience, I have added a snapshot build of HDB-DOS to
http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
The zip file contains all the .WAV, .BIN, .CAS, .ROM files built by default.
Please see the Makefile  for more information about what the different files
are for.

As Aaron points out for his software, rather than redistributing these
snapshot files, please refer to the above snapshot folder.

> There needs to be a files download section for the toolshed repo for
current builds of the various utilities there... not just toolshed itself.

Yes, that would be nice. We should also make a new release, so people do not
download the release from 2008 or 2010... I hope the snapshots will be of
help until then.

Tormod

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