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| 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. --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32* Origin: Derby City BBS - Louisville, KY - derbycitybbs.com (1:2320/100.2008) SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 34/999 106/1 120/228 123/500 140/1 222/2 226/0 236/150 249/303 SEEN-BY: 250/306 261/20 38 100 1404 1406 1410 1418 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 SEEN-BY: 393/11 396/45 633/260 267 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 2222/700 SEEN-BY: 2320/100 105 200 2905/0 @PATH: 2320/100 261/38 633/260 267 |
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