Re: Virtual serial drive

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Monday, September 10, 2012 10:38:59 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> If you guys come come up with any improvements to the hacked together bit of code I had on my site, I'd love to update it for everyone who googles for a solution in the future.
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> On Monday, September 10, 2012 10:54:16 PM UTC-4, Kevin wrote:
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> > > > How can i create a serial drive for apple II, i found Apple2VirtualDrive at this link  ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/utility/, but I don't know how to do.
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> > oh yea, this is the stuff right here, its going to save me TONS of time and wear n tear on the drive / disks 
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> > how much of the server code did you have to change (aside from the language port)I was eyeballing it the other day and thinking it wouldnt be impossible to get the functionality on a microcontroller + SD card (like I have any time anymore)

thats what schmidtd more or less did, there was a question about your software, I poked at it, found your site, posted it he bolted on ADT magic and now it works rather well on the 8 bitters (as long as its pretty much plain prodos, it's not perfect but its 100% better than writing a million disks on a 25+ year old drive) 

thank you very much for your little bit of hackery, and keeping your site available!