Re: ADTPro 1.1.9 Released

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

schmidtd wrote:
> This release incorporates Jonno Downes' newer ip65 stack - and in so
> doing, I've enabled DHCP (auto) configuration for the Ethernet
> client.  There's also a couple of bug fixes that all users might be
> interested in - one is a long-standing one where duplicate volume
> names would report erroneous block sizes in the volume display.
>
> Thanks to Antone Vignau for the suggestion to beep on file read/write
> errors, and the impetus to fix the duplicate volume label problem.
>
> http://adtpro.sourceforge.net
>
> 1.1.9 - May 1, 2011
>
> New functionality:
>
>  * [Client] Enabled DHCP auto-configuration from Jonno Downes' latest
>    ip65 code.  Note - Saved configuration files for Ethernet won't be
>    compatible; so delete or re-save them with this release
>
>  * [Client] Beep at the completion of a disk transfer that had read
>    or write errors
>
> Bug fixes:
>
>  * [Client] Duplicate volume names caused incorrect/repeated volume
>    size display
>
>  * [Client] Attempting to format a write-protected 5-1/4" floppy was
>    hanging

Great work, David--as always!

ADTPro has significantly reduced the "friction" of getting an
Apple II (or /// ;-) up and running.  I can't think of a better
way of making the machine more accessible to newcomers.

-michael

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