[Coco] DriveWire in Java

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 10 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>I have uploaded Linux and Mac OS X versions to
>http://aaronwolfe.com/coco/dwserver
>
I just tried to go there, but the view all files button simply loops back to 
itself. FF3.5.6.

>These are not as tested as the Windows version, but I have booted
>NitrOS-9 using both of them.  The GUI definitely doesn't look as nice
>as on the Windows version, but I've found there are differences even
>running on Win XP vs Windows 7. It looks like I'm going to have to
>learn more about relative component alignments and avoid any absolute
>positioning.
>
>-Aaron
>
>On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>> 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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