DriveWire 4 is an award winning open source connectivity solution for the Tandy Color Computer. 

Using DriveWire 4 you can run a web server on your CoCo, host a multi line internet BBS, transfer files to and from remote computers, send email, control MIDI devices, telnet to and from your Coco, and much more.

A number of screenshots and videos of DriveWire in action are available in the gallery.

Supporting all CoCo models, DriveWire uses the built in "bit banger" serial port to provide:

• Disk drives up to 4GB in size
• Access to remote filesystems (HTTP/FTP/WebDAV/SSH/CIFS/etc)
  
• TCP/IP networking
  
• Virtual/telnet modem emulation
• Printing via an emulated Epson FX80 dot matrix printer
• A real time clock
• MIDI using a built in flexible synthesizer or external devices
  

DriveWire 4 can connect directly to your CoCo via a serial interface (a USB adapter will work fine) or via TCP/IP to an IP-Serial bridge.  You can also use DriveWire 4 with a patched version of the MESS emulator via TCP/IP.

The DriveWire software has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.  The server runs well on computers with modest resources, including small devices like the Linksys NSLU2, Nokia N800, or GlobalScale GuruPlug.

DriveWire provides an easy to use programming interface which allows writing client software in a variety of languages.  IRC, Twitter and other network clients are in development.  Since TCP/IP connections are presented as standard serial ports, the implementation is backwards compatible with almost all existing OS-9 software.

A beta version is available for download, or you can check out the latest source from the DriveWire SourceForge site.




DriveWire 4 would not be possible without help from the CoCo community and the generous support of Cloud-9.