[Coco] Vcc+DW4 to access real floppy drive on Coco-3 ?

Kandur k at qdv.pw
Mon Jul 7 23:28:39 EDT 2014


Thanks Robert.

Kandur

Monday, July 7, 2014, 2:57:05 PM, you wrote:
> Kandur wrote:
>> Bill, what I wanted was, to access physical floppy drives on the Coco,
>> while running Nitro OS-9 on VCC. Drive ON/OFF don't seem to work
>> on the Coco's physical drives from OS-9.

>> Kandur

> Kandur,

> What you want, as described above, is impossible. VCC has no method of talking 
> to a Coco, whether VCC 1.42 or 1.43beta. What you can do is have VCC talk to 
> real floppy drives on your PC, if you have such drives.
> What is required, is fdrawcmd.sys be installed on your PC. This is described in 
> detail in "Welcome to Vcc.pdf", which should be available where you obtained VCC.

> Robert


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