Re: Apple Disk Server Beta. Need testers.

[David Schmidt <david4602@gmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 1:56 am, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.  Added no-format and format versions as requested.

Works.  Good implementation on the website.  Still looking for some
cheat-sheet info there... "plug audio cable in to Cassette Out (II+),
audio plug next to joystick port (IIe)" or so.

> 2.  Volume at 100%.  Cannot get any louder.

Behavior at my end is exactly the same.  The iPad must do some volume
regulation, because behavior hasn't changed since the "50%" level the
other day.  One notch down from 100% volume on my end, and I start to
get CRC errors, no matter what Audacity says.

> 3.  Start motor before inflate.

Works, if a little early. ;-)

> 4.  Got rid of WAITING FOR DATA countdown.  Instead I simulate the
> inflate code, count the cycles and compute the exact time it needs.
> The only variable is the write time and that has stabilized since pre-
> starting the motor.  All disks take less than 3 minutes now to
> download and write.

That makes the process look smoother.

> Can you test it this weekend?  And do not forget to testhttp://asciiexpress.net/gameserver.1and tell me if HIFI works from
> there.

Interesting: game server works 100% of the time on my reticent IIe at
100% volume with BOTH lo and hi-fi settings.

Disk server still fails; the behavior is this: Hitting LOAD, you get
the beep at 3.5ish seconds, then after 5 or 6 seconds, the message
"LOADING INSTA-DISK, ETA 9 SEC. ERROR" shows up.  So I get the LOADING
message with (as far as I can tell) instant failure.