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Re: ADTPro 1.2.5 Released
- Subject: Re: ADTPro 1.2.5 Released
- From: Riccardo <rigreco.grc@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:13:53 -0700 (PDT)
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Il giorno sabato 22 settembre 2012 16:24:47 UTC+2, schmidtd ha scritto:
> 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
Great work, David
Many thanks