[Coco] Looking for a working DriveWire 4 setup

[Bill Nobel]

I have DW on a Pc, but on my Mac since upgrade to Yosemite it is broken by the fact that java says it is in compatible on this version.  I don’t think it is a DW problem, but more of a update issue.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 7, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is interesting.   I think you're the first person to mention using
> it.  I hadn't put much work into that kind of thing because of an apparent
> lack of interest, so I'm afraid maybe you'll find the browser stuff
> unreliable on any platform.  It was kind of a weekend experiment that I
> thought nobody cared about and abandoned.  None of the auto disk
> download/creation stuff is very well tested so if you run into the same
> problems on another platform I worry it may just be poorly done.  I don't
> want you to waste time on something that isn't going to work out.
> On Dec 7, 2014 8:27 PM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Aaron,
>> 
>> While DriveWire 4 on OS X was unstable, I found the browser to be
>> incredibly helpful. Much easier than copying & pasting URLs. Maybe once I
>> was more comfortable with the environment, and had a set of disk images I
>> use often all set up and ready to go, I could forego the browser. But, for
>> someone just getting back into the CoCo, I find it invaluable.
>> 
>> Christopher
>> 
>> 
>> On 20141207, 19:56, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> When the last release was done I tested on the current OSX, Debian,
>>> Ubuntu,
>>> OpenSUSE and Centos IIRC.  It worked "out of the box" on all back then,
>>> this was probably late 2012.  So if you go back to that era with any
>>> mainstream distribution it might be better.
>>> 
>>> If all that's not working is the browser, you're missing very little.  Its
>>> designed to just give up on the browser and carry on in the event of
>>> trouble because its of so little value. I really wouldn't spend much time
>>> worrying about that.
>>> On Dec 7, 2014 5:37 PM, "Christopher Barnett Fox" <cbfox01 at syr.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Evening, fellow CoConauts,
>>>> 
>>>> I've been struggling to get a fully-functional DriveWire 4 setup going.
>>>> I'd like to know what OS & JVM folks have found that work well.
>>>> 
>>>> Problems I've encountered include stability issues on OS X 10.9.x and
>>>> 10.10.x, and missing features (e.g. no browser support) on most Linux
>>>> distributions I've tried, including 32- and 64-bit flavors of Xubuntu,
>>>> Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
>>>> 
>>>> Just looking for recommendations on what's working for folks. While I
>>>> could run Windows for this purpose, I'd rather avoid it if possible. Any
>>>> Linux distro would be fine, including older releases if necessary.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Christopher
>>>> 
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