[Coco] drivewire in emulator?

[Paul Fitch]

The current methods for moving files from the PC file system to the emulated
file system are clunky and non-intuitive.  And MESS is no saint there
either.  I've had it mung up floppy images on me too many times.  So giving
emulators access to drivewire just makes things easier.  If the emulators
did everything the hardware coco does, I'd probably never plug the hardware
one in again.

I like using the Vcc emulator.  Its faster, (like 40 times faster),I get to
use my big LCD screen and my nice laser wireless mouse and my wireless
keyboard, and I don't have to move out of my favorite chair. But the
emulator can't run a BBS or talk to the outside world, yet.  Once it can,
I'll be in hog heaven<g>.

No dirty edgecard contacts, no blown CPUs, no misaligned floppies and twenty
year old HDs refusing to spin up.  And the joysticks?  God forbid I should
ever have to use a Coco joystick on purpose again.  I think the emulators
are the best thing to happen since computers were invented in the first
place.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:18 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] drivewire in emulator?
> 
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a Coco emulator that can provide a serial port 
> > usable in some way by Drivewire?
> > 
> > I am on the waiting list for a rgb->vga convertor, but until one is 
> > available, developing on my real Coco is somewhat tedious 
> (40 glorious 
> > blurry columns :)
> > 
> > -Aaron
> 
> Why would you want to do that? There would be no benefit of 
> any kind in using Drivewire with an emulator. Emulators 
> already can use emulated hard drives and the MESS emulator 
> can send data to a PCs printer.
> 
> If you want to use more than one hard drive with a Coco 
> emulator, the John Collyer version of the Vavassour Coco3 
> emulator can mount two hard drives at the same time. All the 
> others can easily change the mounted hard drive at will.
> 
> You certainly don't need Drivewire to get 40 or 80 columns of 
> text on a
> Coco3 emulated or real. Take a look at the MESS or VCC emulators.
> 
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