[Coco] DriveWire in Java

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 13:17:03 EST 2009


I've put a working version of a new DriveWire server, written in Java,
at http://aaronwolfe.com/coco

The zip file there *should* just work for any Windows platform that
has a JRE installed, but I'm hoping some of you guys might have time
to try it, as I have only one Windows machine here to test on.   The
idea is to unzip the file and double click on dwserver.jar...  might
work :)

Next will be click and run versions for OS X and Linux.  The serial
library I've used supports about 30 platforms altogether, and I've
designed the server so that the GUI is optional.  This is in hopes of
running the DW server on mobile devices or other small things that
support Java.

Features added include the ability to write protect disks, saving and
loading entire sets of disks at a time (this I really like) and a
fancy log viewer thing.
Right now only drives and rtc work.  Printing, virtual serial and
networking are not far off.  I believe the implementation is true and
complete in following the DW 3.0 specification for the drives portion.
 It's probably just in my head but it feels faster than the delphi
windows version somehow.  booting os9 is very quick.

Anyway, if anyone wants to try it out I'd be glad to have some
feedback and bug reports.
-Aaron



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