[Coco] Interbank Incident for Drivewire ?

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 18:34:49 EST 2012


Is there a neat POKE I could use to change the speed to a lower value
when loading CoCo 1 DW from the Cloud9 site WAV? I'm having difficulty
making it work. Whereas the CoCo 3 version works like a breeze. And
yes, I tried changing the server speed to 38400.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>> Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, why would it work with a CoCo 2 but not a CoCo 1?
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
>>
>> Actually I don't know what will happen and made an assumption based on the
>> NitrOS-9 project. If you look at the Level1/coco section, you will see that
>> two types of disks get built, coco1_dw3.dsk and coco2_dw3.dsk. There is no
>> such distinction for non-Drivewire disks.
>>
>> Aaron, Boisy, or Darren Atkinson would be the ones to ask about this
>> difference, and what it is.
>>
>
> The bit-banger routines in DriveWire for the CoCo 1 are timed to
> operate at 38400 bps. This is because the CoCo 1 uses an OpAmp to
> shift the voltage of the TxD output, whereas the CoCo 2/3 have the
> SALT chip. The CoCo 1 OpAmp can't handle the faster 57600/115200 rates
> used in the CoCo 2/3 routines.
>
> Darren
>
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