Re: Apple Disk Server. Final Beta (I hope).

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jan 8, 11:36 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 1/8/2012 8:36 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
>
> > I added more pad (a second).  Please try again.
>
> That fixed it.  I tried several of the disks with the previously
> reticent IIe, and they all worked fine.  Including the Applicard one.
> It was pretty cool... imaging a virtual disk over the internet, via
> audio signals, to the CFFA3000 talking to a USB thumb drive, booting
> CP/M.  I'd like to think Gary Kildall would be amused.
>
> So the CFFA3000 works fine with no-format, 8kfi option.  I suppose I
> should bust out my II+ machines now and see how they fare. :-)

Good to hear.  I think the audio generation code is done.  And yes,
I'd love to hear about II+ success.  Works with Virtual ][+.

>   * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer.  Must be
> missing some fonts somewhere along the line.  Most things are readable,
> but the inverse text is unintelligible.

Non-Apple?  Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome?  I.e. IE.  Specifically IE9.

I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered.  The
inverse, if you look carefully, actually has the scan lines in the
background (as it should be).  It's not as simple as changing the BG/
FG colors.  The TTF font requires different codes for inverse (|
0x80).  And, with IE9, I cannot get the HTML5 audio controls to
appear.

A new web design is being worked, hopefully that will fix it.  However
with the holidays over, my sustained retro time is now limited to
partial weekends and the odd very late night--it make take some time.

>   * Web page cheatsheet says: "then from your computer press play."
> could probably be clarified to say: "then press play here."

2 second fix.  Done.

>   * At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
> Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk.  Seems like most folks
> would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
> advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
> monitor).

I'll get in the next release.

> That brings me to another observation... I guess we're assuming we're
> running from S6D1, right?  That should probably be mentioned somewhere
> along the line.

I thought about that as well.  My reasoning was that retro-pro-users
(people here) would not use this service and that the people that
would, would most likely have a system setup with drive one on S6.
I'll put something in the readme.  I do not have a lot of space on the
main page for text.  The origin of both my projects was to provide a
solution similar to ADTpro and the A2gameserver without needing a
computer.  The iPad was my benchmark followed by the iPhone.  However
I would like to have this work on any system.