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A few final steps

Submitted by glb_gtz on October 2, 2006 - 2:21pm

I am still have a few issues, but everything seems to be working. I have been playing Castle Wolfenstein of a floppy using a keyboard, not an easy task. I am working on the joystick hardware. I want to interface the standard PC type joystick, since that is what I have. It should be basically the same as the Apple joystick. I have the code written, now I have to build the hardware.

haiku

Submitted by tviereck on September 25, 2006 - 3:18pm

haiku

mmmhelp with nano stuck on hold

Submitted by molly smiles on September 6, 2006 - 4:52pm

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My first day on applefritter...

Submitted by MacMan1972 on September 6, 2006 - 4:10pm

My first week on applefritter....

ipod out

Submitted by bjsal6973 on August 23, 2006 - 12:32pm

Forgot my IPOD was in my pocket and got it wet tried to restore it but it will not mount with PC any suggestions or is it toast.

Thx.

Not quite done deal

Submitted by glb_gtz on August 22, 2006 - 1:55pm

The floppy is working 100%. I thought the reading and writing from the drive would be the hardest part. I also thought that moving the head would be the easiest part. I cannot believe how wrong I was. It ended up being much easier to read and write. The documentation on moving the head states that different phases should be turned on then off one at a time. It appears that ProDOS as well as other programs turn on the next phase before turning off the previous phase. After I figured out that the documentation was wrong, it did not take too long to get the head stepping to working.

I now work for Togo's Great Sandwiches.

Submitted by themike on August 18, 2006 - 3:45am

I finally quit my job at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk! Believe it or not, but that is a terrible place to work. I now work at the Togo's in Watsonville, CA, and that is a much, much more enjoyable job. I just need to eat before I go to work! Wink

InDesign weirdness

Submitted by tachyon on August 15, 2006 - 4:55pm

The most helpful error message is:

"Internal Error"

What are you supposed to do now?!

Moving to the end

Submitted by glb_gtz on August 7, 2006 - 11:28pm

Now that I have the boot issue fixed, I am working on the floppy. I have it mostly working. I am able to use FILER to format the two drives. I am also able to store data on the drives. I can run programs from them. I can even use Copy II Plus bit copy and copy one disk to the other. But a few things still are not right. The first issue is booting from the drive. I can do a PR#6 and it will go to track 0, then it moves the head to track 1. I assume it read the boot blocks and is looking for PRODOS. I am having an issue with Copy II Plus also.

Smoking Gun for sure

Submitted by glb_gtz on July 30, 2006 - 1:05pm

Finally the debug effort is finished. I traced the no boot issue to a bug in ProDOS. This error exists in both ProDOS version 1.2 and 1.9. But I see it has been fixed in version 2.0.1. I just need to do a work around in my ROM code to make sure I do not trigger this bug. Then I can continue firmware development of the Serial Virtual Drive. When I get this working, the floppy is the next task. I have done some testing on the floppy and I believe it is working. But the final test will be to load a DOS 3.3 image into the RAM and try to boot from the floppy. If it works, then it is party time.

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