[Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 15:19:02 EDT 2013


Ah, if its just an in memory image without write support, yes that is
simple and can already be done, albeit a bit manually:

dw disk create 1
dw disk dos format 1
dw disk dos add 1 C:/some/path/to/file.bas
dw disk dos add 1 http://my.website.yay/some/file.bas
etc...




On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> You could add an option: create a image dsk from a folder. Then you get all
> the files inside the folder and put into an image in ram.
>
> If you update a file on host PC it won't be visible for the coco, unlesse
> you umnount and mount again. Also, writing back to pc would not be
> supported but you could save the image to a dsk like any image in ram.
>
> Probably you would need an option to set the disk size and system:decb or
> os9
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Drivewire doesn't have a feature to let you mount a folder full of files
>> as a disk image on the CoCo?
>>
>> No.. It sounds convenient but I'm not sure how you could do that
>> without massive changes to DECB/HDBDOS.  They send requests for
>> sectors, not files.
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