Has anyone noticed in Applewin , you are not able to create any Virtual Disks? I had to go back to a later version of Applewin to do this. Normally you would boot up a DOS 3.3 Disk , click on a Drive Icon , type in the name of the File you wish to create , hit Enter , then in BASIC you would type INIT HELLO . This would create the .DSK file , but for some reason in the newer versions of Applewin you get an I/O Error! I noticed this because I finally found CATSEND 3.0!! So I created a .DSK file and copied the file CATEND 3.0 to it and put a fresh DOS on it and it boots perfectly!
Anyhow I know that I have asked in the past for CATSEND , so I finally got it , and thanks to everyone in the past for links and what not for any Novation Applecat Programs...
I do have some interesting news , some friends of mine ran two boards in Southern Cal back in the day , one was called The Simarilian and the other was Dune .. These boards were incredible! They both had a Wait option when logging onto the BBS. The wait was for using a Touch Tone Phone to recieve Text Messages! It was rather interesting because you would enter " 1 " To go to Voice Messages or " 2 " to log onto the BBS. The texting part was simular to todays Texting , you would use the buttons #'s to chose different letters and so on. Then you had the option to leave the message to a persons voice mail box . SAM the Speach Automated Mouth program was used also to deliever the voice mail! I am working with others to get the actual program up and running again , I really think this was the first of it's kind program back in the 80's to do such a thing , in regards to any BBS of it's kind back then. There will be follow ups on this and hopefully I will be able to link people to view it .
But getting back to the creating virtual floppies in Applewin , that was basically my beef and hopefully someone will let the good folks over at Applewin to know what's up and to correct the problem. I really use Applewin because my friend's Non-Autostart F-8 ROM is included in Applewin when running under Apple II+ :O) a real kick-azz Rom that , if you know what you are doing , can do alot of great exploring of 6502 Machine language! Great for Cracking into any copyright protection back in the day :O) This rom works excellent in any Apple II+ ! I should know , all my II+'s are running it :O)
See ya
Patrick.
A2forever
That's your job - "they" don't necessarily hang out here. Please write up your findings at the AppleWin developer site - Tom is good about responding to them:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=6117
Patrick, can you please upload the Catsend .dsk file to Asimov for posterity? Thanks!
ftp.apple.asimov.net
/pub/apple_II/
I would love to upload the file if I only knew how to!
Do I have to use a FTP client of something like that?
Patrick.
You use an FTP and upload to the /incoming directory of Asimov.
I see it in the incoming folder of Asimov now, so it looks like either you or someone else figured it out. Thanks.
hmm is there also one called Apple II Warez or something like that in a a zip form? If so that's my complete collection of .dsk images also! If anyone wants it , it's worth the d/l .
Patrick.
I didn't see anything in Asimov related to the title Apple II Warez. Can you re-upload?
ok I'm using CuteFTP for windows because when ever I use ws_FTP pro it will not let me connect to asimov's site with out a password! so any how , when I use CuteFTP it let's me d/l everything fine , but when I go into one of my directories and choose the file I want to upload , and on the right handside of my screen that shows asimov's site directory , I hit upload and it gives errors saying no such file or directory! I try to go into incoming directory also and get the same effect , so maybe I am doing something wrong and possibly someone can guide me in the right direction on what I am doing...
thanks..
A2forever
Patrick.