Re: Another solution for serving a disk image over RS-232

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:33:39 PM UTC-6, Sheldon Simms wrote:
> I just posted my project of the last week: a program to serve prodos
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> disk images from a Windows PC over an RS-232 serial port.
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> The only possible difference between this software and other similar
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> solutions is that it comes with a patched version of Prodos 8 2.0.3 that
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> allows you to boot your Apple IIe/IIc with super serial card or clone
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> over the serial connection.
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> The link is: http://wsxyz.net/sdisk.html
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> Answers to a few possible questions that might come up:
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> Q. Why? ADTPro does this already.
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> A. Does ADTPro allow you run with no disk drives at all and boot Prodos over
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>    the serial link? If so, then the answer, is "because it was fun". If not,
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>    the the answer is "now you can do that, and also it was fun".
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> Q. Why Windows PC? I have a Mac.
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> A. Because I don't have a RS-232 adapter for my Mac, but my old Windows
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>    laptop has one. It is probably relatively trivial to adapt the server
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>    program to run on a Mac if someone wants to do it.
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> Q. Why Apple IIe/IIc above?
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> A. Because I used 65c02 opcodes. This also could be corrected relatively
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>    easily, but by the time I decided to make everything public, rather than
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>    purely for my own private use, I didn't want to go back and do it.
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> Q. Can you please add <feature request here>
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> A. Sorry, no. All the source code is included and I release it all to the
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>    public domain. Someone else can make that change if they want to.

Right on man.  Good work!  The only thing I'd look forward to is cross-platform so it could be built to run from any device, but I'm not one to criticize.  I was gearing up to do something like this for Apple Game Server later this year, but I have too much other stuff going on.

-B