Re: ADTPro/VSDRIVE over WiFi (was: mass storage for Apple //c)

[Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com>]

So this thingamajig that I mentioned earlier, the USConverters WA232 (aka WiFly), is totally rocking and rolling. My IIc really has WiFi -- it can even power the damn thing. I am successfully able to write ADTPro disk images wirelessly served from a machine on my LAN, or over the internet. It's f'ing bonkers. VSDRIVE works too, even over internet.

(I can't actually make ADTPro work over WiFi with the IIc Plus, because the ADTPro client takes too long to write each chunk of the 800K disk, and the server gives up. But it's fine on the IIc, or an 800K disk on the IIgs, which writes the same chunk much more quickly.)

Though I'm still thinking a Pi attached to the IIc is cheaper, and can certainly do more; for example, you could boot up your ProTERM floppy, use it to log in to your Pi and download and decompress a disk image from wherever, and then serve it up via ADTPro server running on the Pi; then you could flip your floppy and boot the ADTPro client, and write the image you downloaded to another floppy. Or you could, from ProTERM, change the disk image VSDRIVE serves up (actually, this wouldn't be that easy to do unless you switch cables, or ADTPro could use the printer port, which it can't on my IIc's -- see other thread.)

And I'm looking forward to Osgeld's dedicated VSDRIVE device and of course the SmartPortVHD as well. There's suddenly never been a better time to be a IIc owner!

Yup, Sean, I'm going to bring everything to KFest that I can fit in my suitcase and a backpack.