[Coco] Latest LWTools not available for Windows 32 bit

[Steve Strowbridge]

Did we ever get the answer to the question "are the 32 bit binaries
working?" I got lost in Yahooland.




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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:30 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 March 2021 08:20:27 Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>
> > Going off list.
> >
> > >>>> Anyway keep fighting the good fight!
> > >>>
> > >>> Do I get my choice of weapons?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks Eric.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > >>
> > >> CoCo's at 20 paces?
> > >>
> > >> Bruce W.
> > >
> > > Shirley you jest. For a moment, I had more permanent fixes in mind.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Perhaps a CoCo joust?
> >
> > BWC  ;)
>
> But that would be harder on the coco's than on the contestants. ;)
>
> And we are getting to the point where there are not enough coco's still
> functional already.  What I'd like to see next, is mame or something
> similar, running on an old rpi-3b, something that one could hide in a
> case of a coco whose mobo has died. I think even a pi3b would be faster
> than a coco even if we tried to kill it emulating the gime chip.
>
> Here is a thought. The $65 mesa 7i90hd interface card has 72 i/o pins it
> can update at megahertz speeds, and its driven from the pi at an SPI
> bus, 3 gpio wires, speed of about 40 megabaud using a packet of data
> format of 4 8 bit bytes. I am driving a 1400 lb, 80 year old Sheldon
> 11x56 lathe to far more accuracy than the wear and tear of its ways can
> actually do even with laser generated compensation maps for all of it,
> and doing it at 10x the speed an experienced operator could do it in
> 1960.
>
> That we ought to be able to drive a whole coco3 with.  All we really have
> to worry about is the coco's i/o, everything else can be emulated. And
> with 72 lines of read or write data, (we have to segregate it to 34
> lines becuase it can't read and write to the same line, but thats
> fixable) we could do a lot more than the coco's limited I/O addressing
> scheme allows, something you can recall I have ranted about several
> times at length over the last 25 years. Because they weren't conscious
> enough to decode that top page of ram, which could have been done by
> another 20 cents worth of 74138's, they threw away i/o space for 14 more
> pluggin cards, seven between the pia's and 7 more between the top pia
> and floppy at $FF40. And there is similarly wasted space above the gime
> image ending at $FFA0 on the coco3's to the IRQ table at $FFF0, about 16
> more 4 byte wide slots could live there too. But orders from on high
> crippled it because they wanted to sell UP to the pc junk. Worse yet,
> they allowed the PC folks to design by the same rules.
>
> Sigh... Bean counters, we ought to have a bounty on them.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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