[Coco] Who worked on the coco3dw1 implementation for MESS?

[Robert Gault]

Richard Goedeken wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> The MESS software contains all the code for emulating the hardware "becker"
> port.  In order to use this with DriveWire, you need to load a special version
> of HDB-DOS which is patched to communicate with the Becker port, which is a
> "virtual" hardware device in the sense that it was never used with a real
> original Coco - only the FPGA coco or emulated cocos use this special hardware
> port.
>
> You can either load HDBDOS directly from a ROM image (using the MESS target
> coco3dw1 instead of coco3 or coco3h or whatever).  Or you can load the patched
> HDB-DOS program off of a disk image and exec it.  The ROM image and the disk
> image should be in the ToolShed archive somewhere.  Let me know if you can't
> find it.
>
> Richard
>

Well, that does not work quite right as I tried to describe in a private message.

Thanks for responding.

Robert