Re: First Apple-related achievement for 2013

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 6, 2013 10:01:58 PM UTC-6, Kevin wrote:
> I am a huge fan of flow, for instance on a d-sub
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> tin your wires, then fill all the cups on the connector with solder, come back heat the cup up and stick the wire in, presto!

I did it a little differently.  Because it gets increasingly more difficult to put that last wire in once the others are in place, I used the helping hands to arrange all the pre-tinned wires into the cups and while that was held in place I applied the solder to the cups with the wires in them.  I had to go back over a couple to ensure they flowed properly but it didn't wiggle out of place or anything.

I have to say I'm very stoked.  I never had a reliable //c cable before and now I even got Apple Game Server to serve up a disk image -- previously it was too error prone for me to enjoy.

Oh, I also fixed that damn bootstrapping bug in Apple Game Server that caused it to die too quickly.  Turns out that the serial port buffer hangs on to old data and so I have to purge it out before writing data to it.  Apple Game Server uses the echo characters to double-check that the apple has received each character correctly.

I have a couple of other things I want to fix with Apple Game Server since I've left the source rotting for too long, and yes there is a reason I'm beefing up AGS before resuming Jace.  These two projects are about to be a lot more related.  Don't want to jinx anything lest I get anyone too excited.  ;-)

-B