[Coco] DriveWire in Java

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Aaron,

I was just wondering today where you were on this.  I'm ready to give this a spin, so as soon as you have the OS X Java version going, please let me know.

Boisy

On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> 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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