[Coco] Installing DW4 on Linux mint

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 10:36:26 EDT 2017


Alternatively, toolshed's "dwdos" is much smaller than hdbdos to cassette
load via cloadm.

On Jun 24, 2017 9:46 AM, "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:

>  I had a brain fart when I wrote the previous message.  To get Nitros9
> onto a disk for the CC3, I need to wire the coco end of the cable for the
> cassette input from the PC audio out. Then I can cloadm HDBDOS to initially
> use DW4 to download Nitros9. Then I will be good to go. Several steps to
> go. Not too bad, really. The main important thing is DW. I have to get it
> onto the coco in order to use it.
>
>
> On 06/24/2017 01:02 AM, Barry Nelson wrote:
>
>> George Ramsower georgera at gvtc.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com
>>> ?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Installing%20DW4%20on%20Linux%
>>> 20mint&In-Reply-To=%3C1de590c9-1591-13bc-d25a-6e56b855311b%40gvtc.com
>>> %3E>
>>> Fri Jun 23 21:39:10 EDT 2017
>>>
>>>    I haven't actually tried it on my Coco3 yet. I was thinking it would
>>> not work correctly after all the error messages when I ran it the first
>>> few times after another download. Now I need to get a regular serial
>>> connection going so I can download that other file for RSDOS that will
>>> enable me to use DW4 and download a Nitros9 for this CC3. Many more
>>> steps. I think I have the wiring on the PC end ready. Now I need to find
>>> a way to get an RS232 to work on that CC3. That will be the toughest
>>> thing to accomplish.
>>>
>> Why would that be hard? You don’t need an RS232 pack for Drivewire, it
>> uses the serial port that is built in to the CoCo 3, you just need a cable
>> and a serial port on your Linux Mint server.
>>
>>
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