[Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

[Bill Pierce]

I'm probably going to have it a shot at the turbo mode this week. All one would have to do is rename dwread.asm and dwwrite.asm to dwread.old and dwwrite.old, then rename the dw4read.asm and dw4write.asm to dwread.asm and dwwrite.asm. The do a "make all"
That should do it if the conditionals are present in the dw4 sources to set the Coco 2 and 3 builds... right?
I'll have to compare the conditionals to the current ones in case they were renamed (a lot was) and haven't been updated yet since they are not being built.

The double speed throughput on my 3 would really make some of my projects "sing".

Bill Pierce
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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, Sep 29, 2013 8:58 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*


I suspect because 38400 x 2 = 76800, which is a pretty weird serial port speed.
It may also be that the same hardware issues which prevent 57600 also
simply do not allow any "turbo" operation.

Please remember that the so called "DW4" or Turbo roms and drivers are
experimental and unsupported at this time.  As you noted, they are not
automatically built in the standard boot disks.  It is expected that
if you want to experiment with these things that you will have a
NitrOS9 build system and the experience to create these modules from
what is provided.. if this doesn't sound like something you (and I
don't mean you specifically, Bill :) are able or want to do, please
wait until the Turbo stuff is made mainstream.