[Coco] Software testing for FDC emulator

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:08 PM 4/18/2011, you wrote:
>This is john
>What is CoCoNet?

Hey, John.  I took Disk BASIC 1.1 and expanded it to 16K and added a 
slew of other drive systems.  You can call them subdrives or virtual 
drives but they behave just like the FDC, so all standard DOS 
commands are supported: bitbanger cable drivers @ 115200 bps, RS-232 
Pak drives @ up to 230400 bps, Wireless Pak drives, MicroSD Drive Pak 
drives, all possible at the same time spread across the 4 DOS 
drives.  You can mix or match any type of drive system and 
copy/backup between them, and more.

If you run the CoCoNet server on your PC and connect to the CoCo 
using an RS-232 Pak, wireless pak, or bitbanger cable, you can 
download web pages and files onto mounted virtual disks, making the 
files instantly readable by the CoCo.

The CoCo will auto-boot to the whatever the primary drive system is 
chosen to be.  All paks and cables are detected and the most likely 
primary device is floated to DRIVE 0, and autoboot.bas and similar 
named programs will be looked for and automatically run, as well as 
the DOS command for OS-9 disks.

You can turn on the CoCo and have it auto-boot a disk hosted on the 
web by setting the CoCoNet server to mount the URL of the disk in DRIVE 0.

One user has written a wireless live chat program in BASIC.

So, at the current version (CoCoNet 1.26), the CoCo can "network" to 
various devices and the internet by way of the disk file system for 
the most compatibility using any CoCo.  The SAVER command (SAVE R) 
can be used to send parameters to web pages and scripts and retreive 
the output for doing all sorts of fun and serious things.

One of my projects is to add support for the Plug N Power modules so 
we can turn things on and off in our homes from anywhere over the 
web.  The simple part is the program for monitoring the incoming 
commands over the web, and the harder part will be figuring out how 
to control these remote controllers.   I have two models and I can't 
find any programmer's reference sheet anywhere.







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~ Roger Taylor