I would have liked to find that comparison site earlier. However I think I'd still have gone for greaseweazle.
On Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 09:29 Tony Duell via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Well, I've got the Greaseweazle software to run, but I don't know why, > which is hardly encouraging. > > Installing various Windows updates, downloading .dlls, and puting the > latter in various directories changed the error messages but it never > actually worked. But downloading the latest Greaseweazle software did, > it ran first time. So no idea what I was doing wrong (maybe 32 bit > .vs. 64 bit Windows applications?) > > I can now get the list of commands when I run gw.exe. And can get help > on them using the -h option. I've not tried connecting a drive yet, > but the software can find and talk to the board (the green 'activity' > LED turns on). For example 'gw rpm' which is used to check the drive > speed by timing the index pulses times out and gives a 'no index' > error which seems entrely reasonable. > > However I am not sure if I'll be able to use it. There is one very > important thing missing : DOCUMENTATION. The 'wikii' on github is > ridiculously incomplete. There is no user manual or man pages. The > software source in python (a language I've never used) has very few > comments and is not clear at all. > > It's not clear to me exactly what all the options are for, and when to use > them. > > -tony >
