[Coco] Drivewire cable - Where to get it?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 29 July 2013 18:18:48 Retro Canada did opine:

> Zterm is great!
> 
> Gene did you find all control codes to operate minted on it? as shift +
> arrow keys dont work you need to press ctrl-x to backspace and ctrl-y
> to delete. also ctrlz pages down and an odd ctrl-| ( no i but the
> vertical bar) will page up!

No, I haven't found near all the translations yet.  This Logitech K360 
keyboard (wireless to a usb dongle) has some rollover problems that I've 
not found a setting to clear up yet.  IMO, drivewire should grow a 
translation table so we can make a pc keyboard look like a coco keyboard to 
the coco.  But I'm not in a position to do more than suggest ATM.  Some of 
that could be handled in tmode or xmode but they can only handle codes the 
coco's keyboard matrix can generate, so that is not a fix it on the coco 
end solution by any means.
 
> hey aaron, why zterm doesnt send shift+arrows and ctrl+arrows keys?
> 
> On 2013-07-29, at 5:36 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 29 July 2013 17:30:25 Fedor Steeman did opine:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just realized I have HDBDOS 1.2 on a cartridge, so I guess that
> > means I can readily use Drivewire. I just need a Drivewire cable
> > going from my CoCo's serial port to the computer. However, I cannot
> > seem to be able to find where to order such a cable. And what if your
> > computer no longer has a serial port, but only USB?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Fedor
> 
> Almost any serial to usb adaptor I have tried works well except the
> pl2303's I have, they have a tendency to drop the first character of a
> transfer.  Not 100% of the time, but often enough the error logs when
> its listening to my UPS will eventually fill my /var partition on a
> terrabyte drive.  But I'm partial to the FDTI versions, they Just
> Work(TM).
> 
> I currently have a 3 foot cable plugged into the bitbanger port, plugged
> into the adaptor, which is plugged into a 7 port hub, and a 15 meter
> amplified usb extension cable comes up here to be plugged into the
> motherboard here.  It all just works.
> 
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> Cheers, Gene


Cheers, Gene
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