[Coco] RPi DriveWire Success!

[Joel Ewy]

On 01/14/2014 11:42 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> Glad it worked out, was going to write earlier that your errors on
> inserting a disk sounded like either the server process had died or
> was out to lunch.  A quick test is to just type:  dw<enter> into the
> command box along the bottom of the GUI, if the server is running and
> responsive you'll get a response with help text, if there is any
> communication problem between the gui and server it will provide error
> information that might reveal the problem.

Yeah, the funny thing is that it was responding to dw commands.  It just 
couldn't load disk images.  It's moot now, but something funny was going on.

> The PiCo sounds pretty nice :)  Have you noticed how nicely a Pi would
> fit into a standard rompak case?  I keep thinking I must find a way to
> make the PiPak.

Last spring I designed a CoCo cartridge housing in OpenSCAD and made one 
unsuccessful attempt to print it on my Thing-O-Matic.  It's almost too 
big to fit on the build platform, but I think I can make it work if I 
put a little more effort into it.  I did successfully print a case for 
the Raspberry Pi that I downloaded off of Thingiverse, so I know I can 
print something big enough to house the Pi.  The only problem with the 
PiPak would be that you'd have to have external cabling, unless you 
somehow run DW over the cartridge port.  Is that what you had in mind?

JCE

> -Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>> Sufficient fiddling got me through.  I've booted NitrOS-9 on my CoCo3FPGA
>> from a DriveWire 4 server running on a Raspberry Pi.  This is pretty cool,
>> because there is a good chance I can get both the RPi and the CoCo3FPGA to
>> live in the same CoCo 3 case and eventually run off the same power supply.
>> Then if I can wedge a PS/2/USB keyboard adapter in there with some kind of a
>> switch, I can run them both from the same keyboard.  A mini USB hub in the
>> cartridge bay will allow me to plug in memory sticks and whatnot and I can
>> have a hybrid PiCo.  I have a ViewSonic LCD that allows me to switch between
>> the analog VGA for the CoCo3FPGA, and the DVI port (with HDMI adapter) for
>> the RPi with the touch of a button.  I need to try out Bill's DW4Man.  That
>> should minimize the need to switch back and forth.  But with a little work I
>> could have a self-contained WiFi-enabled 25MHz CoCo that's also a fully
>> usable Raspberry Pi.  I like.
>>
>> JCE
>>
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