[Coco] Printing from DW

[Zippster]

Ahh, ok.  Starting to understand a little more about what this Becker Port is.

Is there documentation on the Becker Port as it’s implemented now that I
could review?

- Ed


> On Oct 27, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 27, 2014 3:57 PM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I kind of like the wireless replacement for the serial connection to
> Drivewire idea.
>> Has anyone done anything like this already?
>> 
> 
> You can use a Bluetooth serial adapter to do wireless drivewire, its simply
> a matter of swapping the serial cable for the adapter *if* you have one of
> the adapters that just works.  Unfortunately there are also some that do
> not just work, and I'm not sure if the details are sorted out.
> 
> This is actually the only way to use DroidWire, the Android version of DW
> (available free in the Play store if anyone wants it).  I demoed this at
> cocofest last year, but I'm not sure if anyone has used it otherwise.
> 
> That was mostly just a "because we can" thing, but the same adapter works
> fine for wireless drivewire to a standard server.  You can buy a matched
> set of adapters to use serial ports on both ends, or if your computer has
> Bluetooth support you can just use one adapter on the coco side.
> 
> In the end, replacing serial with serial over Bluetooth doesn't do much for
> you unless the cable is really a problem.  More interesting would be a
> Becker port sort of solution using a faster means of transport.  On the
> FPGA and emulators, all the buffering and transport is done by external
> mechanisms, the coco just sees a magical address that can be read or
> written.  You could probably recreate this using one of the wiznet tcpip
> controllers or a raspberry pi, some slave processing thing would be
> required but its not unthinkable.  Such an interface would be handy for all
> sorts of uses, not at all limited to DriveWire.. That's also true of the
> current Becker port implementation for what its worth.  Nothing DW specific
> at all about the interface, actually DW is poorly designed for such an
> interface in some ways.
> 
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