Bill Garber wrote:
"David Schmenk" <dschmenk@YUCH.gmail.com> wrote in message news:TYHvk.36511$co7.35695@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com...David Schmenk wrote:David Schmenk wrote:Whew. I really hope this works. Thanks again to all who tested and submitted feedback on this project. While spending so much time working out the IIc VBL issues, I was negligent with the II/II+. I went to re-test the classes that use the 80 column card and found a mess. My videx doesn't do well being interrupted. So, I finally worked out a solution by disabling interrupts during initialization and setting MSLOT myself before calling the output routine (with interrupts enabled). I'm not terribly pleased with the character output code which uses the CSW function pointer, so I may write a real output routine for the videx and IIe/IIc. I understand that the un-enhanced IIes disable interrupts during screen access which disrupts high speed serial I/O. Can't have that.Here is the latest image: http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/VM02ALPHA4.DSK.zip Dave...Darn it - while testing this, my IIc stopped getting interrupts. Of course I forgot to add the back door Ctrl-C check. This image has the Ctrl-C test to break into the monitor - even if interrupts get lost.http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/VM02ALPHA4A.DSK.zip Sorry, Dave...I seem to be replying to myself a lot on this version. I have actually captured a failure on my IIc (and remembered to assemble in the Ctrl-C break code). Unfortunately it look like something is deeply confused about the thread state. The good news is mouse interrupts are probably working better than I thought. Time to review my critical sections.Dave...I may respond more if I knew what the heck I was looking at. Do you have docs for this thing? Can I get a CATALOG from within the program? What does this thing actually do? Right now I am also fighting with myself over which "C" compiler to use, and do I want to compile on the PC or the Apple II. One thing I don't want to do is start a software project before I am sure which system I want to use. Do I want to program in "C", or "ASM", or a combination? Remember Dave, this is a very new topic for us. Most of the folks in CSA2 seem to enjoy rehashing things that have been discussed a million times already. :-) Just kidding, guys.Bill Garber from GS-Electronics http://www.garberstreet.com
I can't believe you guys aren't reading my mind. I mean, it's all right here in my editor :-)
Documentation is sorely lacking (non-existent to be more accurate). I didn't expect timer interrupts to cause so much breakage. I just wish I could get it to work and put together a nice package like Bill has for Aztec C.
What I am doing at the moment is trying to create a disk image that will run a test program. The variety of Apple IIs covers more than my stash of hardware so I need help. I know everyone is waiting around for me to put out a new disk image to try ;-) Once this test program works across the Apple II line, I will move to building a more complete beta release with more documentation. I think I will put it up on SourceForge once the bugs stabilize and the massive re-writes subside.
Thanks for putting up with me and my manic releases, Dave...