[Coco] Its Alive!

[Bill Pierce]

Ed, we want pictures... :-)
It would be nice to see how you have it set up.
I do intend on going this route sometime in the future if I can get my hands on one.
Since my Coco 3 has an eagle keyboard interface (external), I have lots of room where the keyboard used to be and that would be a perfect place to fit an RPI. I have a panel installed in the big keyboard hole and a fan already mounted inside (needed for the disto 1 meg). Once it's set up right, it could be run headless. Just have it boot linux on poweron, then autorun dw. The client side (NitrOS-9) software to control all aspects of dw is already in developement and close to finished and plans for the RSDOS equivalent is in planning. As Aaron always says, anything that can be done from the GUI, can be done from the Coco.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 10:36 pm
Subject: [Coco] Its Alive!


I have been successfully able to use my Raspberry Pi (model B) to act as a
DriveWire 4 server running the DW4 GUI to talk to a CoCo3 under NitrOS9
I can boot my CoCo3 from a dsk image mounted in the server
I can access the /x0 to /x3 virtual drives
I can create a new virtual disk (/x0 to /x3) and read/write to it
What I have nit had a chance to test yet is:
(a) RS-DOS access, as I have concentrated on NitrOS9
(b) Access a NitrOS9 VHD
(c) Auto-update of DW from Aaron's site.
As I have time, I'll test those options,but using a Pi does provide a
low-cost DW4 server and with an 8GB SD card, it should hold all the dsk
images I'll even need.

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