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from: schmidtd
date: 2008-08-10 19:25:42
subject: ADTPro for the Apple /// released

The good news: ADTPro is now running natively on the Apple /// under
SOS.  It'll read and write whatever SOS device you are running.  You
can download a .zip file the contains a plain old .dsk containing a
SOS bootable image that can handle your floppy drives and a Profile.
I've also included a .dsk image that has a driver for Rich Dreher's
CFFA card in slot 1 on the ///.  So you can transfer your CFFA images
back and forth now too.  It supports the built-in RS-232 port on the
back of the /// (see bug 1 below), as well as a Super Serial card in
any of the 4 slots.  Uthernet support is on the agenda.

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net - look for ADTSOS-1.0.6.zip on the
download page.

The bad news: there's a couple of bugs left that I can't get a handle
on, and could use the world's help with.

Bug 1: the built-in ACIA (on the /// that I have) seems to double-up
on characters it sends when initiating a transmission most of the
time.  So, normally, I would send a string like "ZFILE.DSK" to query
the existence of "FILE.DSK".  It arrives as
"ZZFILE.DSK" at the host
3/4 of the time.  NO idea why.  If I fake it out by copying FILE.DSK
to ZFILE.DSK, then the query works... but then the string that is sent
to get the file is: "GFILE.DSK"; that arrives as
"GGFILE.DSK" half the
time.  If I also fake that out by copying FILE.DSK to GFILE.DSK,
everything works fine!  Note, this problem does not occur with the
Super Serial card.

Bug 2: after the first transfer (to or from), the .CONSOLE driver
stops echoing characters you type.  So, when you are specifying what
image to transfer the second time, you have to type blind.  I have
tried everything I can, down to closing and re-opening the console
driver.  I can't seem to make it echo typed characters any more.  I've
tried it under SOS 1.1 and 1.3.  No difference.

Other than that, it works great. :-)  Well, I don't have formatting
support wired up yet, and probably won't in the near future.
Formatting is sufficiently device-specific that I might leave that to
the utility disks to do for me.
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