[Coco] DriveWire 4 beta

[Aaron Wolfe]

Glad you got it working.  If you are using the version on the web
page, check for an updated file there later today.  We've made lots of
changes in the source since that was put together, need to get that
one current.  If you're building from CVS then you've probably got a
more recent version so no worries.

The telnet client is pretty weak right now and doesn't do any kind of
terminal emulation itself.  For BBSing, I have great luck using the
virtual modems with a regular terminal program like supercomm.  Just
use /N as your "modem" and regular hayes commands should work.  One
strange thing is that echo is off by default due to some other
requirements, so ATE1 is a good first step if you want to see what
you're typing to the modem.
"ATDsome.bbs.host:12345" will get you connected, and the ANSI
emulation in supercomm makes the BBSing work very well :)

Anyway its nice to know someone else has it running, I think that is
about 5 of us now.  You're the second Windows success I know of (after
my test machine).
-Aaron


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta
>>
>> This software is not for the casual user who just wants to use
>> DriveWire.  For that, please continue to use DriveWire 3, as it is
>> well tested and easy to use.  This beta is neither.
>>
>> If you are interested in dw4, or have a compelling need to use the dw
>> drivers from CVS right now, you might find this software useful or
>> even fun :)
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
>
> Hey, I just briefly tried out the current beta of DW4.  I started it up on a
> Windows XP machine I had been using for DW3.  I was able to wget the Google
> home page and see lots of uninterpreted HTML scroll across the CoCo's
> screen.  I tried to telnet to some BBSes, but was getting an error 208,
> which I appears to be an illegal system call.  But it's definitely a
> promising start.  If I get some time tomorrow I'll see if I can get it going
> under Ubuntu 8.04.  Fun, fun, fun!
>
> JCE
>
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