Re: ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released

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

On Sep 13, 7:05 pm, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
wrote:
> One more suggestion which I'm fairly sure will be immediately rejected:
> A very small extension to the protocol to allow remote control. Ie. from the
> PC side.
It's not a protocol extension - it's a change in nature from client to
server.  It's not much of a stretch, really.  But it changes the main
event loop from polling the keyboard to polling the comms device.  It
would probably be possible to poll both devices in turn, too.  Gets a
little messy with the audio version, though.  Noise on the line would
become a denial of service attack. :-)  Unless the protocol were
extended to be more complex than a single-byte command code, you'd
probably be spending a lot of time waking back over to the Apple to
reset it.