Re: ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Aug 11, 11:23 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> 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

David,

Thank you for continuing to improve an already excellent program! I
just downloaded it and I'll be transferring the the 800k image to my
GS after I'm done posting this message. Keep up the great work!

Dean
Apple II Forever (truly)