[Coco] RaspberryPI DriveWire server

[David Ladd]

Right now I am working on a way to recreate the Boisy Interface/Becker
port as a real card to interface with the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi.
Though the two USA distribution locations I tried to order from are
back ordered a month so as soon as I get my Pi and my FIFO chips I
will start on it.

Plus using the GPIO as a full 8 bit parallel mode should increase speed as well.

For my test platform I am going to use my J&M CP FDC since the
parallel port on it uses the same FF44 port for in and out.

One of the problems will be getting the HDBDOS DW updated so there is
a becker version of the drivers.

As far as NitrOS-9 goes it already has a becker driver created and
tested working with CoCo3FPGA, Patched MESS, and modified VCC.

I will update what I have going on once I have more info to share.

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Well, I just got my RaspberryPI cards.  they now come with 512k ram, cool.
> I got their recommended image on it and it works great. It has the graphical
> desktop and everything. My plans are to make drive wire servers out of them,
> and use them headless by either remote session, or ssh.   Has any body
> already done this?
>
> I got a java loaded, but saw comments about not working with the java serial
> drivers etc.  Most of all the posts I have seen so far assume the reader is
> an experienced Linux admin. he he he I haven't figured out yet which
> distribution to use yet to get the java serial drivers working yet. So if
> anyone already knows, could you share? :-)
>
> If not,  When I figure it all out I will send up some more info. I'm not a
> Linux guru, so it may take me some time.  But I do know how to do searches,
> and follow instructions, and not a complete Linux neophyte.  Like mys sister
> always says "I'm not a complete idiot!" ha ha ha
>
> Later!
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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