[Coco] Level 1 & Drivewire

[Neal Crook]

There is also a hardware interfacing issue. DW uses bitbanged io but there
is no direct hardware equivalent in the multicomp09 VHDL currently.. and
all the timing will need to be re-tuned. The more portable alternative is
to use the UART. However, the UART only supports 7 bit data at the moment.
I thing DW needs 8-bit data. I had UART mods on my project list and am
happy to move it higher if you want to work on the DW code changes.

Neal.
On 31 Dec 2015 15:37, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Bill, the repo "latest" has disk images of NitrOS9 L1 w/dw.
> I have used L1 & DW4 with both my Coco 1 & my Coco 2 as well as with XRoar.
> The only thing is the standard L1 DW distro disk does not leave much
> ram... you may need to strip out a few unneeded modules to get some memory
> back. The Coco 1 disks have dw drivers that run at 38400 baud (due to odd
> serial setup) and Coco 2 disk have drivers for 57600 baud (can't double
> speed a Coco 2).
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> DriveWire works nicely on NitrOS9 L1 :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Dec 31, 2015 10:01 am
> Subject: [Coco] Level 1 & Drivewire
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> Hey All,  I have a question.  Has anybody tried or is it even possible to
> use Drivewire on Level 1 Nitros9?I’m curious as I now have Neal Crooks
> Level1 Nitros9 with 4 DS Drives setup with 512K Ram (only 64k used under
> Level 1) and would like to get the further Drive access and communication a
> lot better.I have Drivewire Servers already setup and working from
> emulators, but wonder if Level1 has the same capability.Bill Nobel-- Coco
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