[Coco] Help wanted

Luis Fernández luis46coco at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 26 10:15:47 EDT 2011


Hello

I would like to help, especially in the last 2 points on your list

but I'm not even level

I mention

"I did a translation of basic Spanish, is in cas, and I have to locate
"I know well the Dragon disc formats, and am doing support for other formats

It assembler "coco"

But I'm still young and DW3 or DW4 OS9 (I have not had time)

-jeff added two commands to change SN SYNTAX ERROR by ERROR
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html # coco3

in
Download MS-DOS file enhancements and extended error messages for CoCo 3BASIC (see readme.txt within)
http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/download/external.zip

We could see

now I have many projects, but I have the urge to help, if I can not

before would have to get used to and learn more about DW, I have still not installed

I'm in the face to see how to do to make things work in coconut or emulator, as itdoes not work at all well (another topic)

sure I can help soon, they are tokens that you can use free space in the command table and function table

> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:20:41 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Help wanted
> 
> Thanks.  If it weren't for the work you did on the original DriveWire
> from Cloud9, I doubt I would even be part of the CoCo community today.
>  The fact that it was available, easy to use and free is a big part of
> what got me back into the CoCo.  I still to this day have never owned
> a real floppy drive, so DW opened up a whole world of things that I
> had spent many hours reading about and wishing for as a kid :)
> 
> I do appreciate the kudos, that wasn't the goal of my post.  There are
> some features that folks have asked about (and that I think are really
> cool) but that are just outside my technical grasp for now.  For
> instance.. adding virtual channel support to BASIC.   We could easily
> make it possible to write a web server, a web client, real networked
> games.. all sort of internet stuff right in good old DECB.  Even
> something as simple as using web pages as the output for a BASIC
> program instead of the CoCo screen in an otherwise normal program
> could be useful.
> The server has the functionality, the DW ROM has the I/O routines, all
> that is missing are a couple BASIC commands to send and receive the
> strings.  And yet I've been beating my head against how to exactly do
> that for several days.  I know it can be done, even have some idea of
> how to do it, but it's just so far outside of what I have experience
> with that things are moving at a glacial pace.
> 
> I'm really just hoping that some of the experts here will check the
> "Help Wanted" page next time they are bored and looking for something
> to do.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> > Aaron,
> >
> > I applaud your efforts and the quality of the product.  You did it without gain or profit, and that is also to be applauded.
> >
> > DriveWire has been and continues to be the community standard for diskless, PC-connected storage for the CoCo, and you've taken it farther than I originally envisioned.  Congratulations.
> > --
> > Boisy G. Pitre
> > http://www.tee-boy.com/
> >
> > On Apr 25, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >
> >> As I am wrapping up DriveWire version 4, I keep thinking about all the
> >> great suggestions and ideas that people have shared with me.
> >> I'd love to see some of them come to be in the next version of
> >> DriveWire.  I could sure use a hand to make some of these thing happen
> >> though.
> >>
> >> I've listed what I think are the most interesting ideas for going
> >> forward.  Most of these features are held up by my lack of skill on
> >> the CoCo.  Only a couple require any work on the server side (and
> >> trust me, if anyone does the CoCo side work, I will get any server
> >> side stuff done one way or another :)
> >>
> >> If you know the ins and outs of the BASIC ROMs, assembly, OS9..  There
> >> are ideas lacking skill waiting for you here:
> >>
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/home/helpwanted
> >>
> >> This is not an authoritative list, all ideas are welcome.  Current and
> >> future DriveWire is 100% GPL open source code, it belongs to the
> >> community and all input is welcome.  I've never asked for anything in
> >> return for the hundreds of hours I've put into dw4, because frankly
> >> I've enjoyed doing it and probably would have done it for myself
> >> anyway :).  However, I am asking for some help going forward.  There
> >> are so many great things we could do and I feel like my own lack of
> >> skill on the CoCo side is the biggest impediment most of the time.
> >>
> >> -Aaron
> >>
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