[Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?

[Christopher Smith]

Ok, I give up.  What's HDBDOS mode?

Chris

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> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:35:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire on Windows Vista?
> 
> 
> 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 :-)
> 
> Bill Pierce
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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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Christopher Smith
Systems Engineer, Wolfram Research