Re: ADTPro beta - now with cassette/sound card and IIc support

["schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Mar 19, 11:16 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 18, 7:54 am, "schmidtd" <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > The ADTPro project now has the ability to use the Apple's cassette in/
> > out ports and your sound card for data transfer.
>
>   Cool!
It was an exercise in intellectual curiosity more than anything else.
It started out life as a way to blast DOS to the Apple and get someone
with no serial card going.  Then I learned to read .WAV files, and
thought it would be cool to send data back to the host.  Then I
learned to interpret audio data on the fly, and... well, you know how
it goes.  Pretty soon the whole thing came together.

I was doing final testing before "release" on my Apple II+.  I found
out/remembered too late that the cassette routines I tap into emit a
beep *every* *single* *time* they complete a packet.  (My normal
working machine is a Platinum IIe with the speaker wire disconnected.
I believe computers should be seen, not heard.)  Super-annoying.  I'm
going to have to copy out the write routines and eliminate the beep
now, too.  I already had to re-do the cassette read routines to I
could insert an escape-to-abort key scan and timeout on silence.  Next
release will be quieter...