[Coco] "Who came up with pyDriveWire ?"

[Kevin Becker]

I've never tried it myself, but there is a C version of Drivewire.

https://github.com/boisy/drivewire-unix



On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 21:34 +0200, didier at aida.org wrote:
> On 09/08/2020 20:49, RETRO Innovations wrote:
> > On 8/9/2020 3:37 AM, didier at aida.org wrote:
> > > if running an application means spending 3 days trying to modify
> > > the 
> > > system to get something working
> > > there is a serious problem
> > 
> > It may be a serious problem for the person trying to install, but 
> > perhaps not for the author:
> > 
> >  * Am I trying to design a tool for lots of people to use, or is my
> >    attempt just another option to consider?
> >  * Are there lots of people having the same issue?
> >  * If so, do I plan to support it or change to accommodate it?
> > 
> I'm only using a standard windows 10 and a standard Linux buster...
> I tried drivewire and pydriverwire on both machine and it failed
> java drivewire worked once someone told me that I needed java 7
> 
> > I stand by my original point.  You are free to choose to install
> > the 
> > app (or not, if you can't or find it too hard to get it to do so
> > in 
> > your environment, but casting concerns about the choice of language
> > is 
> > overstepping.
> > 
> > > btw I also tried to install on linux and got the same result:
> > > java 
> > > errors and python sending error messages...
> > > 
> > > I run C programs since 1984 and never had any problems...
> > I'm sorry, but I think you've just been lucky.  Trying to get old
> > (or 
> > even very new) C apps running on Linux or Windows can be just as 
> > frustrating (missing libs, GCC version not new enough, too new,
> > libs 
> > get installed in the wrong place, because they were hardcoded to
> > be 
> > put special places on a different distro, etc.  I'm glad you have
> > had 
> > good luck, but I hardly think that's a resounding success for C in 
> > general.
> it depends on the programmers, I've ported my code since 1984
> without 
> any serious problem but it is also clear that I saw some
> horror with mix of C and C++ with the C using freed objects...
> with C you need to be extremely rigorous or you pay the high price
> 
> > > I installed that for liber809 and discovered that it was as 
> > > unfinished product totally unsuable...
> > 
> > Boise I think is on here and can comment on that.  I think it is 
> > indeed a proof of concept, not a finished product.
> it's a nice project, I like the idea, but a bit more documentation
> and 
> links to usable resources would have helped
> (initially I bought liber809 to try it on others machine
> (SYM1,Replica 
> 1, PET...) it was not compatible so finally I made my own board...
> as I now have an Atari I wanted to try liber809 on it...)
> 
> if you check on forum you can see that liber809 works, nitros9 works 
> but... now what ?
> > Jim
> > 
> > 
> > 
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