[Coco] Drivewire on a Pi

Juan Castro jccyc1965 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 10:30:06 EDT 2014


I coded a C version too. It's kinda terse and doesn't have that much
configurability, but it serves DSKs (and printing to TXT files) well and
will surely keep the Pi cooler than anything that needs Java:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwlite/


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:15:19 -0300
> Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker <ranaur at ranaur.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I´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!)
> > 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?
>
> Gustavo:
>
>         The '3' version of drivewire server is on sourceforge. The
> entire project give you all 3 versions of the '3' server (Max,
> Winder$, and Linux) and the Java '4' version. The linux code is at:
>
> http://drivewireserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/drivewireserver/drivewireserver/linux/
>
>         You can simply download the source (source/drivewire.c) and
> makefile (build/makefile) and compile it (they can be in the same
> directory). The Linux version is terminal based and pretty self
> explanatory (and simple).
>
> > 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!
> >
>
>
>
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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