Re: ADTPro 1.2.5 Released

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:24:47 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> Ok, here's a few more goodies.  The time and date is synchronized with 
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> the host, and there's two versions of the serial driver: one that hides 
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> between the BI and buffers, and another that stomps on the Disk II 
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> driver.  The latter is compatible with ProDOS utilities.
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> There's a little bit in there just for me - I don't expect anyone else 
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> will need it, so I'm not even adding a button on the UI for it.  But for 
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> those that need to unit test ADTPro, if you start it with the parameter 
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> 'localhost' you can have it serve the virtual serial ports (that are 
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> mapped to IP ports) of emulators.  So far it works with AppleWin and JACE.
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> I needed to stop chopping wood and sharpen the axe... so I could test 
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> the serial version of the virtual drive.  It was just taking too long to 
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> make real disks and test on hardware.  The bug I was shooting: later 
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> versions of ProDOS hid the Disk II driver at $d800, not $f000...
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> Anyway, there's a few bug fixes for all the Daves that use the Ethernet 
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> version, too.  And all executables are SYS files now.
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> http://adtpro.sourceforge.net
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> 1.2.5 - September 22, 2012
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> New functionality:
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>   *  [VDrive] ProDOS date and time is set when communicating with
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>      the ADTPro server
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>   *  [VDrive] Serial driver installs over the floppy driver by
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>      default
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>   *  [Server] ADTPro server serves a hybrid serial-over-IP for
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>      emulators - enabled with startup parameter 'localhost'
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> Bug fixes:
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>   *  [VDrive] Ethernet driver is now more "reentrant," allows for
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>      restarting if the "ping" message doesn't show up right away
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>   *  [VDrive] Aborts via escape key are more reliable, Ethernet
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>      now recovers correctly
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>   *  [VDrive] Device driver installer filetypes changed to SYS

well there goes my afternoon!

Thanks for all your work