Re: ADTPro 1.2.4 Released

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Monday, September 10, 2012 7:01:13 PM UTC-7, schmidtd wrote:
> I wish I could have stayed at version 1.2.3 for at least a year with 
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> such a cool release number, but alas - it was not to be.  The coding 
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> elves got to work right away.
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> Hot Rod and I worked on deprotecting a disk I had in hand (ok, Hot Rod 
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> did 99.999% of the work; I provided some data and maybe moral support) 
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> and we decided another way to extract a full nibble image would be handy 
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> for such activities.  So I finally activated (and fixed) some 
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> long-dormant code in the ADTPro client to do that.
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> And then maybe it's more of a curiosity than anything, since no matter 
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> where I stash the code, ProDOS utilities steps on it - but now there's a 
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> virtual disk drive driver available to serial and Ethernet users.  Note, 
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> this is completely separate from the normal ADTPro client - it's a 
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> device driver you can use under the likes of BASIC.  What this does is 
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> provides a virtual disk drive on slot 2, drive 1 on the Apple; 
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> meanwhile, up on the ADTPro server, whatever image you have in the 
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> current working directory named "Virtual.po" is served to the Apple II 
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> as if it's local.
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> http://adtpro.sourceforge.net
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> New functionality:
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>   * [Client] ProDOS Serial and Ethernet clients can extract and send
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>     nibble images
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>   * [VDisk] Virtual drive over a comms link - any serial or Ethernet
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>     connection can host a virtual ProDOS disk on slot 2, drive 1
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> Bug fixes:
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>   * [Server] Some serial adapters were exhibiting serious slowdown
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>     problems in some situations (usually non-FTDI, usually non-Mac)
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>   * [Client] IP configuration screen was missing some dots

Jeez, David,  it took something like 2 weeks to add all the virtual disk support.  Have you been slacking, or what?  Thanks for killing *my* productivity for the next few days ;-)

For real, this is incredible.  Mucho thanks!

Dave...