Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 7:41 am, David Schmidt <david4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1.  Added no-format and format versions as requested.
>
> Works.  Good implementation on the website.  Still looking for some
> cheat-sheet info there... "plug audio cable in to Cassette Out (II+),
> audio plug next to joystick port (IIe)" or so.

It's coming.

> > 2.  Volume at 100%.  Cannot get any louder.
>
> Behavior at my end is exactly the same.

I do not think its volume related.

> Interesting: game server works 100% of the time on my reticent IIe at
> 100% volume with BOTH lo and hi-fi settings.

Ah ha!  Just to confirm.  It's http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver.1 (.
1) and not http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver that works on both
machines?  And the later only works on one of your machines, the same
machine that diskserver works with?

> Disk server still fails; the behavior is this: Hitting LOAD, you get
> the beep at 3.5ish seconds, then after 5 or 6 seconds, the message
> "LOADING INSTA-DISK, ETA 9 SEC. ERROR" shows up.  So I get the LOADING
> message with (as far as I can tell) instant failure.

"LOADING INSTA-DISK, ETA 9 SEC." then  "ERROR" happens at the same
time, correct (actually within .1 sec)?

Can you tell me the configuration of both your IIes?  I want to see if
I can duplicate the error.

I suspect that my 8000 (gameserver.1) bps code is more reliable than
the 9600 bps code on certain machines.  I do not think it is a volume
issue, but a code issue.  A code issue at 9600 that may not be
solvable for certain machines.  If the CPU is slower (or faster) or
interrupted for any reason it will fail.

Thanks again.