[Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron, and don't forget, you should be able to control DW on a Pi from the Coco with DW4Man :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 1:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:43:52 -0400
> From: billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???
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>> In TRS-80 email list, in February, will touched this topic
>> Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???
>> Are saying Review it, you can also do to the coco
>
> You should be able to run a DriveEire Server on a RaspberryPi.
> Isn't that a bit better than just a Virtual Floppy Disk?
>
> Does drivewire run on Linux?
> I thought it only ran on Windows.
>
> The Rpi doesn't support java at the moment, and running the graphical
> desktop is pretty sluggish.
>

DriveWire runs quite well on the Raspberry Pi.  You can put just the
server on the Pi and run the GUI on a more powerful computer, or you
can run both the server and UI on the Pi (it takes a minute to start
up, but once its loaded works just fine).

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