[Coco] Copy a file from a DW4 virtual disk to a windows directory

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I've always used Drivewire as an emulation of standard CoCo floppy drives.

I may have tried to over simplify things to explain the formats used.

DriveWire cannot emulate a floppy drive controller, it doesn't even
try to.  Things like the CoCoSDC emulates a floppy drive controller.

DriveWire *can* be used to do many of the same things a floppy drive
does, and there is no reason one shouldn't use it in that role if
DriveWire's limited ability to serve as a floppy device serves your
needs.

However, a more accurate explanation would be that DriveWire can serve
as a floppy drive only about as well as a hard drive can.  The
limitations found when using DW as a floppy substitute are the same
limitations found when using an IDE, SCSI, or other hard drive as a
floppy substitute.

HDBDOS does a good job of letting hard drives and DriveWire serve as
"virtual floppy disks".  It does not turn either into floppy drive
emulators though.