Re: Apple Commander 1.3.5.9

[Moose <kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au>]

On Nov 11, 11:41 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> AppleCommanderv1.3.5.9 is now available. This version features an
> update by David Schmidt to allow writing Pascal TEXT files on DOS
> ordered disk images. The current release candidate is here:
>
> <https://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/applecommander>
>
> Visit the AppleCommander web page on Source Forge:
>
> <http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/>
>
> --
> John B. Matthews
> trashgod at gmail dot com
> <http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>


WOW, excellent work Dr J !!!  :)

It's ages since I last checked out Apple Commander, and it has sure
come a long way !!  Excellent work.  :)

A couple of very minor points if I may:

(1). The SWT ZIP file needs to be unzipped to the directory where
Apple Commander is running (or anywhere in path is probably OK as
well, but I didn't check this), otherwise neither version (GUI or
command line) does anything - no error messages, nothing.  Could you
please add an error / output message if the required SWT DLL files
aren't available to tell the user what is wrong and how to fix it ?
An error message something like this would be good:  "ERROR: the
required SWT DLL files count not be found.  Please download the ZIP
for the latest version of SWT from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67414
and unzip this file to the same directory as Apple Commander".

(2). I've only done a little bit of testing so far, but I've found a
disk image that isn't acceptable:

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II//images/games/file_based/AlienDrizzle-Alibi-AlienInvasion-Abstract-GoMoku-AlpineSkiier-Voyager-Serendipity.dsk

This disk uses Pronto-DOS, a pretty rare beast in the scheme of
things.  Hardly worth your time to add support for this ....  Just
thought I'd mention it though, just in case you feel like adding
support one of these rainy days ....   ;)

(3). Wild-card support would be nice for the command line version.
Then again, it's so easy to loop through the required files with a
shell script or DOS batch file.

Anyway, thanks for continuing work on AC and for improving it so
much !  :)

All the best,

 Moose OMalley
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