On 9/11/2012 10:42 AM, David Schmenk wrote:
Jeez, David, it took something like 2 weeks to add all the virtual disk support. Have you been slacking, or what? Thanks for killing *my* productivity for the next few days ;-)
Yeah, it just had to come out of my head. Terence's code is just so cool. You know how that goes.
Also thanks to Ivan Drucker for his fantastic NUINPUT. I used that at the last minute to give you a tiny little configurator. Up until then, you were going to be poking in the IP address yourself...
http://appleii.ivanx.com/nuinput/Now that the only other person that will be using this via Ethernet is listening, here are some caveats just for us:
The Ethernet code isn't hanging together perfectly yet. I had to disable the check for failure on the command checksum - it's not a calculation problem, I think it's processor flag pollution I'm not expecting. Probably a cut/paste problem on my end. So we're flying with a little less of a safety net than our serial friends.
If the ping doesn't show up on the server when you start the driver, you're doomed. You'll want to reboot and try again. The driver installer isn't re-entrant yet the way the serial one is. That's where I drew the line.
And of course it ain't skinny. I request $22 pages from ProDOS to hide it between the BI and PD buffers. 8k is pretty evil.
For real, this is incredible. Mucho thanks!
I'm glad you like it. It's like you said on your OpenApple podcast interview (paraphrased) - re-imagining things through the lens of modern computing leads to some very interesting possibilities.