Re: Game server and SSC

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

"BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Given the frequency of my travel, you never know where I'll be the next
> week.

When you come to the Silicon Valley I'll be more than happy to buy you a
coffe/beer/whatever.

> if there's nothing in those files, it shouldn't be writing ANYTHING to
> the apple.  Unless, of course, it is not able to receive a response
> from the driver, in which case it will try sending "300g" again to try
> a last-ditch effort to start the driver again.  That might be why you
> see a "3".  In this case, use "!echo false" to prevent it from checking

It doesn't recognize the "echo" keyword. But if I put
"!expect false" at the end of the driver.txt then something different
happens.
It doesn't enter the endless beeping loop, but does this:

Java lib Version   = RXTX-2.1-7
Opened port: //./COM1
Executing init script.
Executing driver script.
Expect echo: false
java.io.IOException: Failed to get response from driver after 3 retries
        at ags.communication.TransferHost.testDriver(TransferHost.java:268)
        at ags.communication.TransferHost.init(TransferHost.java:101)
        at ags.Main.main(Main.java:71)

At this point the server sent "@" a couple of times and got "hi" back. I see
it on the scope.
 testDriver() at work. Only for some reason it doesn't see the "hi" coming
back. Weird.


>
> That's because the driver is running and it doesn't know what 3 means,
> so it beeps.  Perhaps you should press ctrl-reset first to reset the
> i/o hooks and then try starting up the driver manually so that the bell
> isn't sent back.  Seems I underestimated the firmware.

If I cntrl-reset and start the loop manually, there is no beeping but
otherwise same thing:
server sending "3" forever and complaining "Failure writing".

I've restructured the driver so that it all fits well within the
> 256-byte limit of a sector.  Want me to email it to you?

Yes, please. to alex <ignore this> at mirrow dotcom

>
> -B
>