[Coco] The Beta Test release of MShell

Tue May 13 23:28:25 EDT 2014

I definitely have to re-look at drive wire under pc now,  I didn’t know this.  If Richard does update Mess code the stock source of Mess for PC is setup for Mac compile under Xcode, to create SDLMess which is what I use minus front end. I would have to start via terminal prompt, but that can be a script.

Bill Nobel

On May 13, 2014, at 8:59 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> 
> Bill, the Becker port was started when Gary Becker needed a port to DW from his CocoFPGA project. It's just 2 port addresses that are routed to TCP sockets to talk to DW4. Aaron then made DW4 to accept dw data through TCP and then did a patch to Vcc so it would use TCP for DW4 as well so you can access VHDs, DSKs, DW4 Midi Synth, Telnet, virtual printers, virtual modems, remote terminals etc.
> The original DriveWire3 would not do all of this. DriveWire4 is a completely different beast. The real cool thing... it's all available to the Coco as well. I know the explanation isn't "exactly" right, but you'll get the drift.
> 
> With DriveWire4, I have a Coco 3, a Coco 2, 2 instances of Vcc Coco 3 and 1 instance of XRoar Coco 2 all connected to the DW4 server and sharing drives. If I ever get my serial router, I'm going to really get it set up even better.
> 
> This is one of the reasons I started writing MShell... to manage it all from one location. Once the PC File Manager is done, then there's no end to the various file manipulation that can be done. I already have RSDOS and OS9 under my thumb, and a jump start on the PC reads from my DW4Man code which would mount VHDs and DSKs into the DriveWire4 server from the Coco. I didn't have to touch the DW4 GUI on the PC, I'd just browse the PC dirs from the Coco for a vhd and the Coco would tell it to mount them. The GUI was a lot like MShell but in 80 col HW text mode so there was no mouse control. I had a lot of requests for mouse control so I started MShell.
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> 
> Ok, I have had a total misunderstanding of DW4,  I thought it was setup for a 
> real Coco attached to a PC via Bitbanger/RS232 for disk changing on fly.  I have 
> never tried adding DW under Mess.  I have been using rb1773 and Emudsk since 
> start of my emulator days.
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> Bill Nobel
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> On May 13, 2014, at 8:07 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts 
> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> Bill,
>> If Richard does a Mac build of Mess with the Becker port, you'll be able to 
> use DW4 with Mess as we do with Vcc.
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>> 
>> Bill Pierce
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