[Coco] drivewire in emulator?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Robert
Gault<robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a Coco emulator that can provide a serial port
>> usable in some way by Drivewire?
>>
>> I am on the waiting list for a rgb->vga convertor, but until one is
>> available, developing on my real Coco is somewhat tedious (40 glorious
>> blurry columns :)
>>
>> -Aaron
>
> Why would you want to do that? There would be no benefit of any kind in
> using Drivewire with an emulator. Emulators already can use emulated hard
> drives and the MESS emulator can send data to a PCs printer.
>
> If you want to use more than one hard drive with a Coco emulator, the John
> Collyer version of the Vavassour Coco3 emulator can mount two hard drives at
> the same time. All the others can easily change the mounted hard drive at
> will.
>
> You certainly don't need Drivewire to get 40 or 80 columns of text on a
> Coco3 emulated or real. Take a look at the MESS or VCC emulators.
>

I am developing software for the Drivewire interface, so it's a
requirement in this particular case.



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