ADTPro 1.2.4 Released

[David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

I wish I could have stayed at version 1.2.3 for at least a year with 
such a cool release number, but alas - it was not to be.  The coding 
elves got to work right away.

Hot Rod and I worked on deprotecting a disk I had in hand (ok, Hot Rod 
did 99.999% of the work; I provided some data and maybe moral support) 
and we decided another way to extract a full nibble image would be handy 
for such activities.  So I finally activated (and fixed) some 
long-dormant code in the ADTPro client to do that.

And then maybe it's more of a curiosity than anything, since no matter 
where I stash the code, ProDOS utilities steps on it - but now there's a 
virtual disk drive driver available to serial and Ethernet users.  Note, 
this is completely separate from the normal ADTPro client - it's a 
device driver you can use under the likes of BASIC.  What this does is 
provides a virtual disk drive on slot 2, drive 1 on the Apple; 
meanwhile, up on the ADTPro server, whatever image you have in the 
current working directory named "Virtual.po" is served to the Apple II 
as if it's local.

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net

New functionality:

 * [Client] ProDOS Serial and Ethernet clients can extract and send
   nibble images

 * [VDisk] Virtual drive over a comms link - any serial or Ethernet
   connection can host a virtual ProDOS disk on slot 2, drive 1

Bug fixes:

 * [Server] Some serial adapters were exhibiting serious slowdown
   problems in some situations (usually non-FTDI, usually non-Mac)

 * [Client] IP configuration screen was missing some dots