[Coco] DriveWire Adventures

[Michael Furman]

Hi Christof,

I’m the author or pyDriveWire.  HDB-DOS mode is definitely one of the most confusing things in DriveWire and sometimes it even trips me up.  Can you tell me in more detail what you are trying to accomplish and how it is going wrong?  It would be good if you could provide enough detail so I can reproduce your issue(s) on my end and then I can see what is going on.

I do want to make one thing clear — Assuming you are using a regular Nitros9-only disk image make certain you have hdbdos mode off before you try to boot Nitros9.  I do know that CoCo Pi has hdbdos mode enabled by default.

—Mikey


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> On Jan 23, 2022, at 5:30 PM, Christof M Bradford <christof.bradford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/22/22 6:35 PM, Rocky Hill via Coco wrote:
>>  Did it even startup with the git version?
> Nope, it just spat out the same "Could not load RXTX library" nonsense. It *found* the directory where the library's at, but refused to load it.
> 
> And wouldn't you know it, pyDriveWire 0.5 has issues of its own. While it does work, and communicate with my CoCo, something falls flat when trying to load programs that use multiple files. I don't know if my CoCo is freezing, or if the stream from the server to the CoCo falls apart, but OS9 won't boot and any games that have to load in multiple files fall down. Maybe HDBDOS is to blame on that score.
> 
> 
>>     On Saturday, January 22, 2022, 09:31:22 PM EST, Christof M Bradford <christof.bradford at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    I've given up hope for getting Java DW4 to use the serial port. I've had
>> some success with PyDriveWire however.
> 
> 
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