[Coco] CocoPi3 "PacoOtaktay Winter 2017-2018 Edition" now available

[Ron Klein]

Hi Bill,

The version of Drivewire I'm using is 4.3.3o and it has the multiple
session support.  The version you mention is not something I've heard of
but it sounds great - especially the V-Port Sniffer.  I would love to see
that version released.  If there's anything I can do to help make that
happen, please let me know.

In the meantime, it's great to get some insight into a bit of Drivewire
history and thanks for sharing those screen shots!

-Ron


On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
> wrote:

> Ron, I assume you're using the "DriveWire4 4.3.4e" version that Aaron
> never officially released. This version was sent to a few Coco software
> developers for testing a few years ago, and, at the time, was the
> forerunner to the never finished "DriveWire5".
> This version of DW4 is the ONLY version I will use. Some things are broken
> from the official release, but the addition of several features (one being
> the multiple instances) made it well worth the sacrifice.
> The V-Port Sniffer alone was invaluable to me in development of DW4Man,
> Sound Chaser, and eventually, MShell.
> Once you understand how to setup the DW4 config file for multiple
> instances (simple copy and paste), it's easy to setup any number of
> instances. I think the most I've had at one time has been 8 instances,
> which included 4 Cocos (1x Coco1, 2x Coco2s, and a Coco3), 2x VCC, 1x Mame,
> & 1x XRoar.
> The first thing that people should know is that this version of DW4 does
> NOT allow "inter-networking" (communication) between instances, but does
> allow the instances to share VHDs/DSKs, which allows me to move test
> programs from my VCC development system, immediately to my Coco3 for
> testing.
> At one point I had thought of talking to Aaron about releasing this
> publicly, but then realized there would need to be a manual (of some sort)
> for the new features (or answering never ending questions) and being one of
> the few who knew how it worked, I didn't have the time. I guess maybe it's
> time to revisit this project and see if some sort of documentation could be
> assembled and maybe post a release somewhere (Aaron?).
> Here is a couple of screenshots of the console:
>
> http:yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/Pictures/DriveWire/DW4%204.3.4e%20(1).jpg
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> http:yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/Pictures/DriveWire/DW4%204.3.4e%20(2).jpg
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