I've wanted to support the Dragon using Drivewire for quite some time. I have a Dragon 64 here, so that's a start.

Anyone skilled with OS9 and the Dragon specifically who might like to help with the driver side of things? I am not sure if we should try to use the build in serial port, or perhaps use the faster parallel connection somehow. It seems the 6551 based serial port in the dragon cannot do 57600bps which is really the lower limit for usability, with 115k being much nicer and on par with floppies in most cases. The libraries I use for communication in DW4 do support parallel devices although not too many modern PCs have parallel ports.. maybe usb-parallel would be an option.

So.. any interest?

I can't say 'sure' right now. I am on the verge of getting a Dragon from CA Digital - just because...

I'm so deep in hardware research right now I don't really have much time for anything else yet. I'm sure the European contingent may show some interest, if they ever sign up to the forum to see your post.


rodder

This is a great idea.
Seems that the last effort to implement something like this was 10 years ago with PCShare (hhttp://www.onastick.clara.co.uk/pcshare1.htm),
Try posting at http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/ , you'll likely get help there

I contacted the PCShare guy last year and he sent me the source for that software. It does one really cool thing that DriveWire doesn't do (yet which is to create OS9 window devices on the PC. That would work better than telnet for lots of things, need to add that to DW at some point. Anyway, I should post on that dragon board, thanks for the link

Although not required, I thought I remember installing a RXTX for parallel interfaces too when installing DW4 ?

You could have. There are separate libraries (.dll, .so, etc) for parallel and serial, but they are often packaged together. Linux package managers usually consider them all one entity.

It seems the 6551 based serial port in the dragon cannot do 57600bps which is really the lower limit for usability, with 115k being much nicer and on par with floppies in most cases. The libraries I use for communication in DW4 do support parallel devices although not too many modern PCs have parallel ports.. maybe usb-parallel would be an option.