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Re: ADTPro 1.2.7 Released

On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, Bill Buckels wrote:



"Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:


I still use Ciderpress.  I have 3.0.1.



Been slowly trying to create command-line tools to replace it but got
overwhelmed and never finished (and lost some of what I had).  After all -
I prefer the CLI as it's what I'm more familiar with.


I've spent the greater part of the last week writing a series of command
line tools that run in ProDOS 8 under the Aztec C Shell and use wildcards to
change file settings on groups of files. This is partially because when I
use CiderPress to place groups of files on disk images, CiderPress can't do
a multi-select to change File Types and Aux Types.
I was talking more CLI stuff that ran on the native side (be it DOS with Borland C, Watcom C or GCC, Windows with Watcom C or MinGW, or *x with GCC), for example to import and export files.
All I finished was "create formatted DOS 3.3 image", "create formatted RDOS image" and "inject files into RDOS image". Used to also have "pull files from DOS 3.3 image", but I lost that code in a hard drive crash. 


I alternately use Apple II Oasis for this feature both in ProDOS 8 and DOS
3.3, but Apple II Oasis is dated. Also Apple II Oasis will place lower-case
filenames onto a DOS 3.3 disk.
Also I have my doubts it would even run outside of another emulation layer on this box... 64-bit Windows =P 


Back to Ciderpress - Andy at one point was considering porting CiderPress
forward to more current Visual Studio. But we can just as easily help Andy
and/or David et al make changes to CiderPress if need be in its present
form. I have rebuilt my Windows XP machine into a PowerToy so can still run
the old without a VM, and my Windows 7 machines represent our current target
for CiderPress I think, so I have those for testing too.


I'd like to see it in MinGW, but that's not likely. :<

-uso.