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Getting Started with DriveWire: Difference between revisions
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One of the first things you will need is a cable. In order to connect your CoCo to a PC being used as a DriveWire server, you will need a bit-banger to DB-9 serial cable. Again, [http://www.cloud9tech.com Cloud9] sells these cables. Conversely, you may build your own based upon the following diagram: | |||
One of the first things you will need is a cable. In order to connect your CoCo to a PC being used as a DriveWire server, you will need a bit-banger to DB-9 serial cable. Again, [http://www.cloud9tech.com Cloud9] sells these cables. Conversely, you may build your own based | |||
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DriveWire 3 act solely as a virtual disk server for a CoCo. Written by Boisy Pitre and sold thru [http://www.cloud9tech.com Cloud9], DriveWire3 is a great tool for those needing just a virtual disk server. The DriveWire 3 PC server software can be downloaded [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire3.html Here]. | DriveWire 3 act solely as a virtual disk server for a CoCo. Written by Boisy Pitre and sold thru [http://www.cloud9tech.com Cloud9], DriveWire3 is a great tool for those needing just a virtual disk server. The DriveWire 3 PC server software can be downloaded [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire3.html Here]. | ||
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DriveWire 4 is a Java version of DriveWire, written by Aaron Wolfe, and has similar functionality to DriveWire 3. Howeve, Aaron has added many other features; mounting of internet based disk images; TCP, web server, MIDI control and many other cool functions. | |||
To use DriveWire 4, you still need the cable shown above. Next, you'll need a recent version of Java - as DriveWire 4 is written in Java, it is OS agnostic; meaning it should run on anything that runs a Java VM, including a Raspberry Pi. | |||
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DriveWire is a server side application used in Windows, MacOS (or Linux for DriveWire 4)to provide a disk emulation server for the Tandy/TRS-80 Color Computer series of home computers manufactured during the 80's & 90's.
DriveWire allows the mounting of virtual disk images on a PC style computer, to provide floppy disk emulation. Real floppy disk hardware is becoming difficult to find these days, so applications like DriveWire provide CoCo users a much needed for enjoying their Color Computers again.
There are two variants of DriveWire; DriveWire 3 & 4.
One of the first things you will need is a cable. In order to connect your CoCo to a PC being used as a DriveWire server, you will need a bit-banger to DB-9 serial cable. Again, Cloud9 sells these cables. Conversely, you may build your own based upon the following diagram:
Drive Wire 3
DriveWire 3 act solely as a virtual disk server for a CoCo. Written by Boisy Pitre and sold thru Cloud9, DriveWire3 is a great tool for those needing just a virtual disk server. The DriveWire 3 PC server software can be downloaded Here.
Once you have downloaded the DriveWire software and connected the CoCo to your PC with the correct cable, you'll need to boot the CoCo with an HDB-DOS ROM image. This can be done with a ROM Pak with an HDB-DOS EPROM from Cloud9 (or someone else); loading thru the cassette port (from either a real cassette player or as a .wav file from a PC), an EPROM placed in a floppy controller or even an HDB-DOS ROM loaded from a .BIN file. Again, all of the files can be downloaded from the Cloud9 DriveWire3 page.
DriveWire 4
DriveWire 4 is a Java version of DriveWire, written by Aaron Wolfe, and has similar functionality to DriveWire 3. Howeve, Aaron has added many other features; mounting of internet based disk images; TCP, web server, MIDI control and many other cool functions.
To use DriveWire 4, you still need the cable shown above. Next, you'll need a recent version of Java - as DriveWire 4 is written in Java, it is OS agnostic; meaning it should run on anything that runs a Java VM, including a Raspberry Pi.
