Re: Apple II Networking

[Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com>]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 05:54:54 GMT, "Ernest"
<leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote:

>
>"Chris Morse" <chris@cosmicwolf.com> wrote
>
>> I already put my //c+ aside for the moment, and started putting
>> together the //e in its place.  The Enable Echo probably isn't my
>> problem, though, because I did have the PC sending characters to the
>> Apple //c+ and got ADT running on it -- but when I ran ADT and tried
>> to send a test disk over, it sat at the prompt "AWAITING REPLY FROM
>> PC".  I have some special COM software for the PC that shows all the
>> events and there was no data being seen coming from the //c+.  So
>> there was nothing to respond to as far as the PC side was concerned.
>> For some reason, it's just not going through.  Eventually I'll sit
>> down and try to figure it out -- probably something in the cable
>> wiring.  Still not really sure yet.
>
>I had the same kind of issue before. I ended up cobbling a connection
>together and basically hand typing some of the ADT code on the Apple and
>copy/pasting the hex code into hyperterminal which then sent those
>characters to the Apple. It was a hacked up mess but it worked in the end.
>This time, I decided to ignore the way that ADT reccommended the connection
>be setup and I did it my own way, and it worked perfectly -and at the 19200
>baud rate rather than the 300 that I had to use before.
>
>Try setting it up the way that I suggested above, and see if it works for
>you.
>
>> Anyhow, thanks for the info on the Apple/SSC setup.  I'm in the
>> process of doing that right now.  Hopefully this will all work OK and
>> I won't have to go to sleep tonight thinking about it!
>
>Sure. No problem. Good luck and I hope it works for you in the end.
>
>E.

Heh.. Quick Reply!  In the meantime I installed the SSC II in my Apple
//e and ADT and everything worked right away.  So it's got to be
something strange with the //c and //c+.  I'll have to spend more time
on that later, but for now I'm happy to finally get *one* machine
connected and running smoothly.  Now to break out the Apple 3.5"
controller card and get those extra drives working.

I grabbed a copy of the ORCA/M v4.1 assembler from Syndicomm (ie,
A2Central.com) and I'm still reading through the manual.  It's all
starting to come back to me now... 

Ever hear of (or, rather, do you have a copy of) the Apple Toolkit
Assembler?  I don't really recall ever using it, but I see it in the
comments of all the Nibble Express books I got from eBay.  

ORCA/M seems to be lacking a debugger..  The manual loves to say how
great the ORCA assembler is, "the most advanced assembler for any
microprocessor"..  Not sure what happened to the debugger!

Thanks again!
// CHRIS