Re: Admin status of the asimov archive?

[tom <tombaker17@gmail.com>]

On Jun 20, 3:11 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> tom wrote:
> > On Jun 19, 1:45 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> >> tom wrote:
> >>> On Jun 17, 3:23 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Since it's in unsorted, we can look at it.  I unpacked it and found
> >>>>> that disk 2 is the wrong size - it's too big for a disk image (145,400
> >>>>> as opposed to 143,360 bytes).  Booting "side 1" asks for "side 2," and
> >>>>> if I truncate it to 143,360 bytes, it doesn't work.
> >>>> The "Giant_World_Side_B.dsk" image is pretty messed up.  The beginning
> >>>> of it is definitely not a disk image, and the last few "tracks" are
> >>>> actually a nibble image, not bytes.  In between, there is clearly some
> >>>> recognizable data, but there's also a "giantb.dsk"--which almost
> >>>> certainly is unrelated to the original disk image.
> >>>> Looks like a do-over is called for.
> >>>> -michael
> >>> I'll take a look at it.
> >>> They do run extremely well (if no transmission corruptions) with the
> >>> AppleWin emulator.
> >>> giantb.dsk is the name the dsk usually has.  I gave it the longer name
> >>> so it would not get lost in all of asimov's listings, but, by
> >>> alphabetical order, stay with the documentation, etc.
> >>> It is possible this was a disk image generated with the 2inaPC
> >>> emulator's data transfer program -- that always added a prologue (I -
> >>> think- it was a prologue) that increased the DSK's size.
> >> If you have an image that runs correctly, just re-zip it and reupload.
> >> That should put it right.
>
> >> -michael
>
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> > Appreciate the help very much.  Perhaps this weekend, if it is that
> > simple.
>
> > Interesting how even a "wierd" image is running okay.  One of the
> > features of AppleWin is that it is not fazed by ProDOS ordering versus
> > DOS ordering in its disk images -- if you give it the wrong one, it
> > just switches over.  Perhaps the AppleWin emulator is really very
> > versatile in accessing disk images, even overlooking the 2inaPC
> > prologue that is apparently there.
>
> That is certainly not the case with the image in the .zip file
> you uploaded.
>
> I'm guessing that the "side B" image you are using is your local
> copy of the image, which is apparently OK.
>
> -michael
>
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>
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It's the weekend, and I took time to review it.

What was uploaded as the 'B' is an 'AppleWin Saved State' file, which
should have a .aws file extension, and was probably sent as a mouse
slip when I was making renamed copies.  Apologies.

I have made a new zip and uploaded it to the incoming folder.  I can
see it there.  I tried to download it again, but kept being told then
that it wasn't there.  Might be because of the spaces or parentheses
in the name, I had made it match the German game that is already
there.  But I tried get and mget both, and tried it with quotes and
without.

I exploded my zip in a new directory, and found that AppleWin can use
both DSK images.  So I hope other people won't have any problems.
But ...

PROBLEM . . . I mailed off the asm-template, and got the following
bounce.
                       But that is the address in the instructions.

               550 550 invalid recipient asm-template@asimov.net
(state 14)

tom