Re: MacADT? OS X version of Apple Disk Transfer?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1131816906.479054.65630@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
josephoswaldgg@hotmail.com <josephoswald@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Frank M. wrote:
>> Can some crafty hacker out there PLEASE recompile the Apple Disk
>> Transfer code for Mac OS X? A long time ago (1995? positively ancient
>> in computer terms...) there was a mac version of ADT (called,
>> naturally, MacADT). Does anyone out there know anything about how to
>> send data to the Keyspan serial adapter and can update the source code
>> to something that xcode can chew on? I suppose that running Virtual PC
>> might work, but that seems inelegant.
>>
>> It's just such a bummer firing up the ole' junk box Win98 PC just to
>> transfer one disk.....
>>
>> thank in advance!
>> -frank-
>
>Frank---
>
>  I have successfully compiled the Linux version of the ADT program
>(Raphael Assenat's version) using Xcode, the free development
>environment provided by Apple. It works from the Terminal UNIX command
>line.

Finally Mac users are able to learn the virtues of a command line.... :-)



>  One change you have to make is to the /dev/tty.... device file that
>is opened by the program, either the hardcoded version or the -d
>command line option, to match whatever device file represents your
>serial device. I have a Belkin USB-serial adapter, and found an
>almost-complete device driver on SourceForge. I don't know if your
>adapter has a Mac OS X driver provided by the manufacturer or by a
>similar homebrew project.
>
>  I'm reluctant to release my version because I have made a couple
>changes in the process of adding 400 & 800k disk support, and some
>extra "debug" commands from the ADT running on the Apple. I also don't
>know all the rules for compiling Mac OS X binaries so that they run on
>all version of Mac OS X, etc.
>
>  If you are comfortable with Xcode I could send you the files I have,
>for whatever that is worth. I feel there are still bugs lurking there,
>but I've also successfully transferred multiple disks.
>
>--Joe
>


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