[Coco] Using DriveWire to write network software

[Brett Gordon]

That's an interesting idea Stevie. A networked coco joystick?  I think
there's some pitfalls with the idea (when isnt there?) but it my be fun to
try anyway.

brett
On Mar 26, 2017 10:30 AM, "Steve Strowbridge" <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This was brought up in our CoCoCHAT! yesterday, if there was a way
> internet-enable existing two player games on the CoCo, what a miracle that
> would be!
> I don't know all of the logistics, but I think the sharing of Joystick data
> could be "streamed" with a custom i/o device that goes in-line to the
> joystick port and gets the bits via the "internet" the 2nd challenge would
> be actually sharing the screen, which Skype seems to do an OK job with.
>
> I almost think like a custom version of an emulator may be the quickest way
> to make this happen, with some modern protocol to share remote joystick
> data and screens, but I'd love to live in a world where I could play CoCo
> games with friends on-line (other than the already existing Global Thermal
> Nuclear War)
>
>
> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Lee,
> >
> > I assume your doing bare-metal asm?  Then first at the lowest layer,
> you'll
> > need a copy of Darren's (most righteous) dw routines.  They can be
> located
> > in the os9, toolshed, and fuzix repos.  Look for 'dwread.asm' and
> > 'dwwrite.asm'.
> >
> > Next, I prefer to abstract these two routines into a "transaction" -
> > combining them into a function/routine/proceedure to first send some
> bytes
> > via dwwrite, and then read some bytes via dwread.  All but one dw
> operation
> > (disk read, iirc) can be formulated with this "transaction" layer.
> >
> > Then read up the tech specs on Aaron's site about vports.
> >
> > I'll send you some code via email for example, but basically sending
> bytes
> > down these vports is dead simple, but reading bytes requires periodically
> > polling to see if any vport channel has data, and reading the data.
> >
> > To acheive basic TCP, you send a simple ascii string to the vport, await
> > the connect notice(also in text), then consider the channel a TCP pipe.
> > "tcp connect some.server.com"
> >
> > brett
> > On Mar 26, 2017 2:10 AM, "Lee Patterson" <lee at 8bitcoder.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The telnet.a sample on https://sourceforge.net/p/
> > > drivewireserver/wiki/Writing_Network_Capable_Software/ is broken. Does
> > > anyone have any samples of how to connect a Coco to a TCP/IP socket via
> > > DriveWire? The tcp/ip server I can write. Getting the coco to talk to
> > > DriveWire, that’s the tricky part for me.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Lee
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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