[Coco] A. Wolfe?

[Aaron Wolfe]

As a follow up, I mentioned there were two ways to use DriveWire in
MESS but only linked to John Linville's mess patch because that's the
only one I've worked with.. tonight I got to try out Tim Lindner's
patch, and it's really cool.

John's patch creates a FIFO in the coco's address space that can be
used for input/output to a tcp connection, but it requires special
Drivewire drivers and disks, so wouldn't let you run software
originally written for the bitbanger over IP.  Tim's patch allows you
to attach the actual bitbanger in the coco to an outgoing TCP
connection.  You can specify the other end of the connection as a host
and port, set your baud rate, and anything you send out the bitbanger
is sent over that TCP connection, reading from the bitbanger lets you
read bytes from the same connection.

This means you can use the stock Drivewire ROMs and boot disks inside
MESS, no special drivers needed.  Very cool!  I really hope Tim's
patch will be brought into the mainline MESS soon.  It will make all
kinds of interesting things possible in MESS, not just DriveWire.

Great job Tim (and thanks John for the original patch, which has also
been very useful)
-Aaron


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are two ways to get DriveWire working in MESS.  Both will
> require you to compile MESS with patched source, although we are
> hoping Tim Lindner's bitbanger patch will become part of the official
> MESS at some point.
>
> You can get John Linville's patch on the DW4 beta page:
> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta
>
> This applies to the MESS source version 0136, which I can't seem to
> find right now.  MAME and MESS are changing things and it's hard to
> find anything to be honest.  Anybody know where to get the source for
> older versions these days?
>
> Once you've built a patched MESS, you put DW4 in tcpip server mode and
> boot using the special OS9 disk also found on the DW4 beta page (or
> make your own, the modules for this are in the NitrOS9 CVS).
>
> Hope that helps, feel free to send me questions directly or on the list
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Little John <sales at gimechip.com> wrote:
>> What is required to get DW4 working with MESS? Specifically, where do I get the patched MESS setup?
>> I don't have DW running right now due to moving all of the vintage equipment to another location (shop) and I was asked to get Desk Mate 3 working under DriveWire. I was successful, but had to email each trial image for testing to the requester until I got it working. It would have been so much easier had I been able to test with MESS...
>> Thanks - JohnT
>>
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