[Coco] too much work?

CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts coco at maltedmedia.com
Fri May 9 21:51:02 EDT 2014


Once you have drivewire running, it is easiest simply to stop using
physical disks altogether.  If your goal is to run coco software found on
the Internet, it's a good solution.. Click a disk image on a Web page and a
second later you're running the program on your coco.

If you are looking for an easier way to write files to physical floppies, I
don't think there is much advantage in using Drivewire over what you are
doing now.  Both require several steps.
 On May 9, 2014 9:36 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> >From Mike Delyea in Toronto
>
> Hope somebody can give me some direction on this.  Right now I use an old
> Dell P3 with a 5.25 drive in it to make disks for my coco3.  The way I do
> it is, I first format the disk with the coco, then I take the disk over to
> the Dell, which is running Jeff Vavasour's emulator (which allows writing
> of real coco disks), and copy the files over from .dsks that I've
> downloaded.  Its worked well so far, I've been able to copy basically any
> .dsk this way, and even made a Nitros9 boot disk which I then took back to
> the coco and I was then able to make a 40trk DS Nitros9 boot disk from it.
> My question is this - am I doing too much work?  Would using something like
> drivewire make this easier (the caveat being I would have to load drivewire
> from disk because I have no means of burning an EEPROM)?
>
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