[Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?

[Bill Pierce]

Chad, I can add to that list of advantages in DW4 over DW3

Turbo mode (double-speed)
HDBDOS Mode option
DW4 Midi Syth emulation
Access to low-level "ui" cmd set (was broken until 4.3.1g or h)
LOTS of bug fixes
Multiplatform/Single package !!
Mutli-machine selectability and compatability (Coco 1, 2 ,3, TCP & emulators, Atari/Liber09, Apple II with Suprserial and Coco FPGA

This is just the ones I can think of quickly, I know there are others :-)
None of my Coco programming projects will run on DW3 as they require the "ui" cmds and Midi.
I can't wait to try the Turbo mode to see if it takes some of the lag out the Midi throughput, it should :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 24, 2013 7:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?


Well "Mostly" HDBDOS/BASIC here, and I a couple of primary points that make
the jump from DW3 to DW4 advantagous...

*  Turbo mode (double-speed)
*  HDBDOS Mode option

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:44 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> DW4 will run on anything that has a fairly modern JVM.  This includes 
>> all versions of Windows from XP to 8.  It can work on even older 
>> versions, down to Windows 95, but the current build does not.  It 
>> also works fine on most any Linux (including the raspberry Pi and 
>> other tiny ARM based PCs) and most Macs.
>>
>> If anyone wonders about a particular machine, the easiest way to tell 
>> will be to find out if that machine has a JVM of at least version 1.5 
>> available.  Currently DW4 requires 1.6, but I think I can bring it 
>> back to 1.5 in the next version.
>>
>
> Don't forget about DW3. :) It works perfectly with Win98SE and 
> probably Win95.
>

This is true, and if you are only using BASIC, there isn't much reason to
use DW4 at all.
There are a few specific cases where you can do something in DW4 that
doesn't work in DW3, like Lyra for DW, but in general they are equivalent
for HDBDOS/BASIC use.

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