[Coco] Drivewire mixed results...

[Boisy Pitre]

Michael,

Allow me to help you clear your gross misunderstandings.

There's nothing proprietary about DriveWire.  If you go to http://www.cloud9tech.com/ 
  and click on the support page, you'll find  the DriveWire  
Specification document under the "Tech Notes and White Papers"  
heading.  This document specifies, in detail, how the DriveWire  
protocol works.  With this information, you could write your own  
server in any language for any development environment you would like.

Also, I understood Linux well enough to have written the following  
free and open-sourced version of the DriveWire server at http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver 
.  If you have just a little bit of experience with compiling software  
under Linux, you should have no problem getting it to run.

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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Tee-Boy
Email: boisy at tee-boy.com
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote:

> I think the works with 98se bit is false.  I've had no luck even
> using a 16550AF serial port that I know works.  Switching from my
> 486 to my Pentium 4 XP laptop outfitted with a prolific usb to
> serial adapter, drivewire worked.  I've been lied to before about
> works with Windows 98, but that was a different company called
> usbgear.com and it was a sound card.  I'm very discouraged that
> Windows XP is the only version of Windows I have seen drivewire
> work with because XP and Vista presumably as well require
> activation.  The drivewire solution turns me off, if it worked
> with Linux even if it continued to be proprietary I'd be a
> little warmer to it.
>
> I could be wrong about drivewire not working with 98se, but has
> anyone here gotten it to work in that environment?  If only Boisy
> over at cloud9tech.com understood Linux, maybe there'd be a Linux
> version.  At least I know now that the serial cable works.
>
> Does anyone know how to create a blank dsk image?  I want to write
> my own programs and use drivewire in place of the traditional disk
> drive.
>
>
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