[Coco] too much work?

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On Friday 09 May 2014 21:35:52 CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts did 
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And Gene did reply:
> 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)?

Drivewire lets you use the disk image directly to construct a new boot 
disk.
 
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