[Coco] EmCeeD for Linux has (kinda, sorta) complete functionality!

[Aaron Wolfe]

On May 18, 2013 7:05 PM, "Juan Castro" <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sure took me some time!
>
> For those not in the know, EmCee is a DriveWire-like server for the MC-10,

Fwiw, DriveWire has support for the emcee protocol/Darren's mcx expansion
built in.

> only it works with filesystem semantics instead of disk I/O semantics. You
> can use it if your MC-10 has an extension board by Darren Atkinson (Hi
> Darren!), or you can CLOAD a binary of it if you have a plain 16K memory
> expnsion by Tandy.
>
> I can read and write data files with OPEN #n, PRINT #n, and (LINE) INPUT
> #n! That was the last thing missing.
>
> Things are still far from complete, but now it's totally usable. What's
> still missing, that I can recall, is:
>
> - The only things that can me LOADM'ed are .C10 files. Hey, it's good
> enough to load Pac-Man.
> - No text translation for BASIC programs. They are saved as tokenized
> files, and only tokenized files can be LOAD'ed.
> - No screen saving.
> - No filename extension cooking. If a file is named MYPROG.BAS, then
> LOAD"MYPROG" won't work.
> - No filename case inverting. I believe I should, by default, show
> lowercase characters in UNIX as non-reverse video characters.
> - The base directory is always the current directory where the server was
> run from. That should be configurable.
> - Printing always goes to /tmp/emceeprint.DEVICENAME.txt -- that, too,
> should be configurable.
> - Speaking of which, there should be a configuration file.
> - And a proper SourceForge project, complete with makefile, license etc.
> (It is GPLv2+, it's in the source header.)
>
> For now, if you want to play with it, get it from the URL below...
>
> http://users.vialink.com.br/jcastro/emceed.c
>
> ...compile it under Linux with...
>
> gcc -Wall -o emceed emceed.c
>
> ...and run it with...
>
> ./emceed /dev/ttyS0
>
> ...or whatever your RS-232 UNIX name is.
>
> Cheers!
> Juan
>
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