[Coco] DW3 WireBug mode

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 16:05:33 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> I was reading the DW3 protocol specification, and was interested in the
> wirebug functions.  In general, coco always initiates transactions, like
> read/write sector.  It appears the general method of using wirebug is 1)
> coco sends command to server indicating it is now in wirebug mode, and then
> sits in wait state 2) server can send multiple commands to coco, which can
> read/write both registers and memory, 3) when done, the server needs to send
> a command to coco to end wirebug and resume execution.
>
> That sounds fine, question is:  I'm an HDBDOS user, how do I place my coco3
> in wirebug mode?  Is there an EXEC &H(addr) statement to accomplish this?
>

Although Boisy wrote the specification for Wirebug mode, as far as I
know it has never been implemented.
If someone would like to write the CoCo side, I'm happy to add support to DW4.

-Aaron



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