[Coco] Becker Port support in MESS

[Bill Pierce]

I agree that it really doesn't belong in the official Mess release, but from a software developing view, it's handy to be able to do the same things in Mess that I do on my real Coco and Vcc (and Mess cannot do).... DW4 Midi, Internet Access, virtual printer, multiple HDs (more than 2), remote terminal etc. The original Coco may not have had the Becker Port, but Mess does not have a real serial port either... so.....
Maybe what we should be working on is using the logic behind the Becker Port and incorporate it into the serial port so "normal" DriveWire thinks it's talking to the bitbanger. Make the bitbanger a TCP port (more or less).
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Goedeken <Richard at fascinationsoftware.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 9:46 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Becker Port support in MESS


On 08/07/2014 10:55 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Call me a purist, but IMHO the Becker Port has absolutely no place being in
> the MESS driver.
> 
> Feel free to disagree.

This is one of the reasons why I suspect they won't accept the patch into
their source repo.  The Becker Port was never present in an original Tandy
machine or any add-on device.  I understand this point of view.  I just wrote
the code because I thought it would be useful for some people.

Richard

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