[Coco] Turbo DriveWire and CoCoNet

[Aaron Wolfe]

Let's consider this a mutual announcement that both DriveWire and
CoCoNet will shortly support 230k operation, both using techniques
that come from the same brilliant programmer.

I know there is a history between the two products, and sometimes that
leads to unpleasant discussions.  In fact, I think we are just about
due for the traditional annual feud :)  However I think Darren is too
valuable a resource in the CoCo community to involve in any of that
silly business.  I hope we can congratulate him on a job well done and
leave it there.

-Aaron

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:
> At 03:48 PM 4/30/2011, you wrote:
>>
>> A few days back I asked for help with the DriveWire project, and boy
>> did I get some :)
>>
>> In addition to suggestions, advice and offers of future assistance
>> from several coconuts, Darren Atkinson has tweaked the bitbanger I/O
>> routines to work at a blazing 230Kbps.  If I understand it correctly,
>> this will also allow 115k operation on CoCo 2s, up from 57.6k.   I've
>> been testing it this weekend and it's a substantial improvement in
>> performance, in fact in the "Donkey Load" test being discussed over on
>> Brian's forum, it beats all other systems tested by a good measure.
>>
>> I want to publicly thank Darren not only for this contribution but
>> also for doing so much for so many projects in the CoCo realm, often
>> behind the scenes.  The MCX128 expander for the MC-10 is very cool,
>> and I can't wait to see the upcoming drive emulator.   Awesome stuff
>> all around.
>>
>> -Aaron
>
>
> A little humor is in order to set the tone before I mention similar news.
>  Back in 2000, my wife at the time learned that I was on my way to file for
> divorce.  My job was working me long days and I'd come home and pass out
> tired, so it was hard finding time to go see a lawyer.  My wife jumped me by
> a few days when her mother told her that she would win the divorce if she
> filed first.  To make a long story short, because we had/have kids and she
> filed first, she demonstrated first that she was unwilling to make the
> marriage work in the kid's best interest.  ANYWAY... jibberish chin wag chew
> blab blab 11 years down the road we are friends but I have custody of the
> kids.
>
> This 230400 bps stuff just reminded me of that for some reason.  I spoke of
> CoCoNet 2.0 having 230400 bps bitbanger support a few days ago to a friend
> but I wanted to keep it silent to the masses to introduce the next time I
> was gang busted by the "other guys", sort of a debate-stopper if you will.
>  We've seen all the numbers talk on the forums and although I'm not a
> posting member I did notice my name mentioned quite a bit.  It's just nice
> to know we are all very active and trying to improve on our stuff even
> though all of the products are apples and oranges and can't be compared in a
> fair way.
>
> Of course, I, too, owe credit to Darren Atkinson for our talks about 230400
> bps bitbanger speed 2 years ago and I tested some code back then as well.
>  I've been so terribly busy that several years have gone by without it being
> added to CoCoNet.  Now the very few days I was focusing on it in hopes to
> surprise the masses :)  it may very well now appear that when I do present
> this in CoCoNet that I would have been the guy who copied the idea from the
> DW team.
>
> I wanted to say early on that this is not the case and that we both owe full
> credit to Darren Atkinson for sharing the idea and/or code with both of us.
>
> An early Cheers to getting this to work flawlessly eventually.
>
>
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