[Coco] A question for Aaron Wolfe on DW4

[Aaron Wolfe]

No, the dw opcodes are the wire level protocol, they are how data is
transferred at the request of the higher level operations but there is no
mechanism for using the high level APIs to then send low level OP codes
again.  That sounds like an inefficient strategy, you'd be turning a single
byte opcode into several bytes and a few instructions on the coco into
hundreds if not thousands by the time things were done.. there is probably
a better way to accomplish things.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 1:42 PM Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Aaron, can "low level" dw cmds be sent directly through the "virtual
> ports" (/Nx)? I'm talking about the lo level opcodes.
> If so, how would one go about this? Would be the same as sending "dw" &
> "ui" cmds, but just sending direct control bytes and looping for the
> response (like normal)?
>
> Or is there a special way to go about this?
>
> Thanks
>
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