Before the new GAL chips the CoCoIO card didn’t work in my CoCo3 and only sometimes worked in my CoCo2. In my previous video I showed it working in my CoCo2 but after that video it stopped working reliably. After installing the new GAL chips the card now works reliably in both machines. This video […]
Read MoreI attended the first ever Tandy Assembly Meetup on November 4, 2023. Here is my report of the event.
Read MoreThe FLEX single-user Operating System initially released by TechnicalSystem Consultants in 1978 was the most widely adopted operating system forMotorola 6800 and 6809 systems. FLEX has a large catalog of applicationsincluding: word processors, spreadsheets, general business applications,and many editors, assemblers, tools, and programming languages. Frank HoggLaboratory brought FLEX to the Color computer in 1982, almost […]
Read MoreThere was an issue with the previously published binary package of pyDriveWire v0.6 for Windows. It was missing a crucial python package pyserial. If you downloaded the old package pyDriveWire-v0.6-win-x64.zip please discard it. A new package pyDriveWire-v0.6-win-x64-1.zip has been uploaded to GitHub: https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire/releases/download/v0.6/pyDriveWire-v0.6-win-x64-1.zip
Read More(new for v0.6) pyDriveWire is a Python 2 project at the current time (Python 3 port is in-progress). Since Python 2 reached End Of Life in April 2020, it has become increasingly more difficult to install Python 2 and the associated packages. We recommend using pyenv to install and manage the recommended version of Python […]
Read MoreOver the past week I have been working on finishing up the pyDriveWire v0.6 release. I was able to produce binary releases for for Linux x86_64, Windows x64, and Raspberry Pi without issue and those binaries are available for download on GitHub. Producing binary builds for macOS however has been extremely challenging and frustrating.
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I’m currently working on prepping for the v0.6 Release of pyDriveWire. If you want to help test it please let me know. I’m available on the MaltedMedia CoCo List, Facebook, CoCo Discord, Mastodon, and Twitter. You can also comment on my YouTube Videos.
Read MoreI haven’t been blogging for over a year. I have so many irons in the fire and details to share. So in order to keep things from getting lost in the weeds forever I’ve transferred this WordPress blog from an older computer to a newer one. Look for more updates from the fire hose of […]
Read MoreThis week I made some quick changes to NitrOS-9 EOU’s version of the sysgo module so it works on CoCo3FPGA.
Read MoreThe latest version of NitrOS-9 Ease Of Use Beta 6 comes with some limited DriveWire support for real CoCo Hardware. This article guides you through the process of modifying that setup to use EOU with DriveWire on MAME or VCC Emulators.
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