becker@sumax.UUCP (Ted Becker) (02/13/90)
Here are questions for you CoCo gurus. I have two CoCo's that I intend to use as dedicated controllers on my model railroad. Current plans are to load one machine from the floppy and transfer the software to the other via the serial or cassette port. (I have only one floppy drive and controller.) First question: Is there software available (cheap I hope) that can write CoCo compatible disks on the PC. I have both DD and HD drives on my PC and it would make the software development a lot easier if I could use the cross compilers on the PC for CoCo development. Second: Is there a uart card available that can plug into the cartrage slot? The control interfaces will be RS232 serial and the application is a semi- realtime opperation that can't tolerate waiting for the CoCo to count on it's fingers for printer port output. Thanks in advance.