[Coco] Drivewire on a Pi

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 June 2014 15:15:19 Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Hi,
> 
> Iآ´m using all the "holliday" I get from the worldcup to setup a CoCo
> system. I'm installing right now the DriveWire on a Raspberry Pi.
> 
> My general idea is to setup a drivewire box, put all the DSKs files
> into the SD card and be happy. It would be nice to play CAS files
> through the audio output.
> 
> Up to now I installed Drivewirte on the Pi. It works but:
> 
> 1) It's incredbly slow to run the server on the Pi (java in weak
> processors is really painful!)

As you have found out. One solution I'd offer is the BeagleBone Black, it 
does an excellent job of running LinuxCNC, so DW should be a piece of 
cake.

> 2) It sometimes gets out of sync os freezes. I need to restart the
> server and the CoCo. Any ideas?
> 3) Haven't tested MIDI, network and other features. Yet. :)
> 4) Can I control (mount/unmount disks) through HBD-DOS? Or only through
> OS-9? How?
> 5) Still have to try the 3 server. Does it comes with sourcecode?
> 
> BTW is there a sourcecode for cocotape? If not is there something
> similar. I could write one, but it is exists already, I prefer.
> 
> If anyone is interested in exchange ideas or getting the .img file when
> it ends, just drop a note!


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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