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ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released



ADTPro 1.0.2 has been released.

It got a speed boost of 25%-33% for Disk II to host transfers by
borrowing from Jean-Marc Boutillon (Deckard)'s FASTDSK fast Disk II
reading routines (http://boutillon.free.fr/Underground/Docs/Fastdsk/
Fastdsk_en.html).  Thanks to Deckard for releasing his excellent
utility to the community.

While I was there, I borrowed a couple other of Deckard's ideas too:
ADTPro is a ProDOS 8 SYS program now, so it can launch from GSOS or
whatever you might have as a launcher.  Swapping out the BASIC
interpreter also buys me a little more headroom to borrow some more
code that's out there too. :-)  Oh, and first-time bootstrappers don't
have to send over the BASIC interpreter (a.k.a ProDOS Part II) any
more.

I pulled in Bird's Better Bye for our Apple II+ friends so they don't
have to be faced with the horrors of the default ProDOS program
selector.  <shudder>

I also fixed a couple of problems with the sector ordering logic with
140k images.  I thought it was a ProDOS vs. RWTS thing having trouble
writing some tricky games, but it turned out to just be a "me" thing.

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net