[Coco] Latest LWTools not available for Windows 32 bit

[Jim OKeefe]

Gene,  don't call me shirley!    ;)

Sorry guys,  couldn't help myself.

Jim

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 10:38 AM Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
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> > On Tuesday 16 March 2021 08:20:27 Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
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> > > 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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> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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