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ADTPro on Raspberry Pi
- Subject: ADTPro on Raspberry Pi
- From: Paul Hagstrom <paul@yesterbits.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:37:58 -0500
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By the way, seeing the commentary about the work on the virtual serial
host, I was inspired to try again to run ADTPro on the Raspberry Pi
(I'd tried once before and it didn't work properly, and I gave up
immediately). Trying again, I got it to work pretty quickly. And, no
(new) engineering magic necessary.
I'll try to do it over from scratch so I can put down the exacty steps,
but basically with the default Debian Wheezy installation, I just neded
to download the proper drivers for my Keyspan 28X serial-to-USB
converter, install Java 8, install the rxtx library (with apt-get) and
move the proper binary into the "unknown Linux" directory, edit a
little bit of the startup script to point to the proper location for
java, startx, and launch.
I encountered no problems once it was running, though my testing so far
has only been connecting it to a IIc Plus, sending over the VDRIVE
image to make a floppy, and then saving and loading back a binary file
from the attached virtual drive. But it works, pretty much out of the
box. So, with a reliable battery power source for the RasPi and some
kind of headless setup, it could be probably made into a pretty simple
and easily acquired mass storage device.
Nice! (And thanks, David, for making it so easy!)