[Coco] Beyond disks (was Re: Coco -> Arduino -> Drivewire and back again... the arduino code... for connecting via the serial)

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Jun 20, 2014 5:39 PM, "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> On 21/06/2014 7:15 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
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>> On Jun 20, 2014 5:06 PM, "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>>> I would like to see more support in manipulating and managing drive
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>> images and easier hard disk creation/management tools built in to
drivewire
>> without additional external tools.
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>>> A more modern way of accessing drives is what Drivewire (to me) is all
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>> about. All the extas thrown in are for a very small minority of users.
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>> I can appreciate that, but the survey results seem to show the vast
>> majority of users being interested in things beyond just drives.
>>
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>
> You will always get that. People have a tendacy to throw their entire
wish list at you.
>
> One just needs to take a step back and make it clear what the original
intent, vision and goal of the project was in the beginning and simply
follow that trail to develop a complete product that does the intended goal
fully.
>
> Not that Drivewire doesn't but when I keep needing to run an external
utility to do certain drive management tasks, then it's clear there is room
for more core features.
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> I don't know about you but I find it more practical to add a feature that
a larger number of users will use than spend days/weeks/months developing
something that only a handfull are going to use.
>
> That's my view... coming from someone who uses their computer for
developing other products (games in my case) for the CoCo. I never did just
"tinker" for my own amusement. I always wanted to create for the CoCo or
use the CoCo as a tool to create.
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>
> Nick
>

I've always respected your opinion, heck I even made a "lite" UI for you
that as far as I know noone else has ever used :)

In this case, I think you are in the minority though.  Both the survey and
the comments here indicate a lot of people do make use of the "beyond
disks" features in DW4.

When I see people like Bill P, Bill N, william, Boisy, Brett, etc (sorry if
i missed someone!) writing new coco programs that use the networking and
other features of DW, that's the biggest reward I can imagine.  People
writing new software for the coco is awesome, and if DW helps that happen
then I think its a success.