Egan Ford

I've given up on trying to figure out why 9600 BPS works for some and
not others. It did not work with Virtual ][ as well. With a bit of
fiddling, I was able to get Virtual ][ to work, but then it did not
work on my //e.

I added support for my older, better tested (by multiple users) 8000
bps code (and I left the 9600 version online as well). This code also
works with Virtual ][. The avg. delta in time is about 15 seconds out
of ~ 3 min.

Per, David's request I added a cheat-sheet.

Next weekend I will replace the 9600 BPS files with 8000 BPS on the
gameserver. That will not have an option for 9600. 9600 only really
saved a second or two.

Hopefully in about a week or two I will have 1000s of disk images and
a better interface.

Thanks for your support, testing, feedback, etc...

http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver
http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver

David Schmidt

Good deal. To clarify some of your questions earlier, I was using the
..1 version of gameserver. That works for both machines without fail.

On diskserver - it works at 8kfi most of the time on the reticent IIe
machine. I can load the ProDOS consistently. But the Applicard disk
fails consistently during/at the end of loading the third chunk. I
played with the volume a little bit here and there, but no matter what
it would fail at that same point. Which is a shame, that's where my
Ace80 card is installed!

The "good" IIe has the motherboard date/part number: "1986/87
607-1087-F" and the reticent one has "1986 607-1087-E."

Egan Ford

On Jan 8, 10:56*am, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Good deal. *To clarify some of your questions earlier, I was using the
> .1 version of gameserver. *That works for both machines without fail.
>
> On diskserver - it works at 8kfi most of the time on the reticent IIe
> machine. *I can load the ProDOS consistently. *But the Applicard disk
> fails consistently during/at the end of loading the third chunk. *I
> played with the volume a little bit here and there, but no matter what
> it would fail at that same point. *Which is a shame, that's where my
> Ace80 card is installed!
>
> The "good" IIe has the motherboard date/part number: "1986/87
> 607-1087-F" and the reticent one has "1986 607-1087-E."

If it failed at the end with ERROR before the chksum, then most likely
writing chuck two took a bit too long and data started sending too
soon. I added more pad (a second). Please try again.

Thanks.

David Schmidt

On 1/8/2012 8:36 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> I added more pad (a second). Please try again.

That fixed it. I tried several of the disks with the previously
reticent IIe, and they all worked fine. Including the Applicard one.
It was pretty cool... imaging a virtual disk over the internet, via
audio signals, to the CFFA3000 talking to a USB thumb drive, booting
CP/M. I'd like to think Gary Kildall would be amused.

So the CFFA3000 works fine with no-format, 8kfi option. I suppose I
should bust out my II+ machines now and see how they fare. :-)

A couple of final suggestions:
* The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. Must be
missing some fonts somewhere along the line. Most things are readable,
but the inverse text is unintelligible.
* Web page cheatsheet says: "then from your computer press play."
could probably be clarified to say: "then press play here."
* At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk. Seems like most folks
would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
monitor).

That brings me to another observation... I guess we're assuming we're
running from S6D1, right? That should probably be mentioned somewhere
along the line.

Egan Ford

On Jan 8, 11:36*pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 1/8/2012 8:36 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
>
> > I added more pad (a second). *Please try again.
>
> That fixed it. *I tried several of the disks with the previously
> reticent IIe, and they all worked fine. *Including the Applicard one.
> It was pretty cool... imaging a virtual disk over the internet, via
> audio signals, to the CFFA3000 talking to a USB thumb drive, booting
> CP/M. *I'd like to think Gary Kildall would be amused.
>
> So the CFFA3000 works fine with no-format, 8kfi option. *I suppose I
> should bust out my II+ machines now and see how they fare. :-)

Good to hear. I think the audio generation code is done. And yes,
I'd love to hear about II+ success. Works with Virtual ][+.

> * * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. *Must be
> missing some fonts somewhere along the line. *Most things are readable,
> but the inverse text is unintelligible.

Non-Apple? Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome? I.e. IE. Specifically IE9.

I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered. The
inverse, if you look carefully, actually has the scan lines in the
background (as it should be). It's not as simple as changing the BG/
FG colors. The TTF font requires different codes for inverse (|
0x80). And, with IE9, I cannot get the HTML5 audio controls to
appear.

A new web design is being worked, hopefully that will fix it. However
with the holidays over, my sustained retro time is now limited to
partial weekends and the odd very late night--it make take some time.

> * * Web page cheatsheet says: "then from your computer press play."
> could probably be clarified to say: "then press play here."

2 second fix. Done.

> * * At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
> Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk. *Seems like most folks
> would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
> advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
> monitor).

I'll get in the next release.

> That brings me to another observation... I guess we're assuming we're
> running from S6D1, right? *That should probably be mentioned somewhere
> along the line.

I thought about that as well. My reasoning was that retro-pro-users
(people here) would not use this service and that the people that
would, would most likely have a system setup with drive one on S6.
I'll put something in the readme. I do not have a lot of space on the
main page for text. The origin of both my projects was to provide a
solution similar to ADTpro and the A2gameserver without needing a
computer. The iPad was my benchmark followed by the iPhone. However
I would like to have this work on any system.

Charlie

On 1/9/2012 12:26 PM, Egan Ford wrote:

> snip <

> I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
> but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered.

You need to convert the TTF fonts to eot fonts for IE9 to work. You can
do that online here:

http://www.kirsle.net/wizards/ttf2eot.cgi

Keep the CSS style lines you have for the TTFs and add lines like this:

@font-face {
font-family: yourfont;
src: url('yourfont.eot')
}

Should work.

> snip <

Charlie

David Schmidt

On 1/9/2012 12:26 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> Good to hear. I think the audio generation code is done. And yes,
> I'd love to hear about II+ success. Works with Virtual ][+.

I currently have some power supply issues to work out, so that probably
won't be soonish for the same reasons you list.

>> * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. Must be
>> missing some fonts somewhere along the line. Most things are readable,
>> but the inverse text is unintelligible.
>
> Non-Apple? Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome? I.e. IE. Specifically IE9.

I looked a little closer. On Windows 7 32-bit, Firefox (9.0.1) doesn't
download the font. IE 8.0.something works fine. I have an additional
variable of using Privoxy to wash the web, but removing it from the
config didn't appear to change things. If it works for others, it's
likely it's just my setup. iDevices and MacOS work fine for me.

> A new web design is being worked, hopefully that will fix it. However
> with the holidays over, my sustained retro time is now limited to
> partial weekends and the odd very late night--it make take some time.

10-4. Can we get an updated code snapshot?

>> That brings me to another observation... I guess we're assuming we're
>> running from S6D1, right? That should probably be mentioned somewhere
>> along the line.
>
> I thought about that as well. My reasoning was that retro-pro-users
> (people here) would not use this service and that the people that
> would, would most likely have a system setup with drive one on S6.

Ah, but the non-pro folks are the ones who might not know that slot 6
was significant. But no matter - you're right, 99% of the folks will
have it set up as default anyway.

Steve Nickolas

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Egan Ford wrote:

> On Jan 8, 11:36*pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> * * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. *Must be
>> missing some fonts somewhere along the line. *Most things are readable,
>> but the inverse text is unintelligible.
>
> Non-Apple? Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome? I.e. IE. Specifically IE9.
>
> I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
> but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered. The
> inverse, if you look carefully, actually has the scan lines in the
> background (as it should be). It's not as simple as changing the BG/
> FG colors. The TTF font requires different codes for inverse (|
> 0x80). And, with IE9, I cannot get the HTML5 audio controls to
> appear.

Seems to work, at least visually, on Seamonkey...no surprise since the
backend is the same as Firefox.

>> * * At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
>> Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk. *Seems like most folks
>> would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
>> advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
>> monitor).
>
> I'll get in the next release.

I wonder if "lda #$06", "jsr $FE95" would be somewhat better than just
jumping to C600? (it's the equivalent of a pr#6)

-uso.

David Schmidt

On Jan 9, 5:47*pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Egan Ford wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 11:36*pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >> * * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. *Must be
> >> missing some fonts somewhere along the line. *Most things are readable,
> >> but the inverse text is unintelligible.
>
> > Non-Apple? *Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome? *I.e. IE. *SpecificallyIE9.
>
> > I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
> > but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered. *The
> > inverse, if you look carefully, actually has the scan lines in the
> > background (as it should be). *It's not as simple as changing the BG/
> > FG colors. *The TTF font requires different codes for inverse (|
> > 0x80). *And, with IE9, I cannot get the HTML5 audio controls to
> > appear.
>
> Seems to work, at least visually, on Seamonkey...no surprise since the
> backend is the same as Firefox.
>
> >> * * At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
> >> Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk. *Seems like most folks
> >> would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
> >> advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
> >> monitor).
>
> > I'll get in the next release.
>
> I wonder if "lda #$06", "jsr $FE95" would be somewhat better than just
> jumping to C600? (it's the equivalent of a pr#6)

The end of the operation could offer to do it for them, but you
wouldn't want to reboot by default.

Egan Ford

On Jan 9, 5:08*pm, David Schmidt <david4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 5:47*pm, Steve Nickolas
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> <lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Egan Ford wrote:
> > > On Jan 8, 11:36*pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > >> * * The website looks goofy on a non-Apple host computer. *Must be
> > >> missing some fonts somewhere along the line. *Most things are readable,
> > >> but the inverse text is unintelligible.
>
> > > Non-Apple? *Or non-Safari/Firefox/Chrome? *I.e. IE. *Specifically IE9.
>
> > > I tested on my wife's computer (Windows 7) without issue with Chrome,
> > > but with IE9 the TTF fonts do not get downloaded and/or rendered. *The
> > > inverse, if you look carefully, actually has the scan lines in the
> > > background (as it should be). *It's not as simple as changing the BG/
> > > FG colors. *The TTF font requires different codes for inverse (|
> > > 0x80). *And, with IE9, I cannot get the HTML5 audio controls to
> > > appear.
>
> > Seems to work, at least visually, on Seamonkey...no surprise since the
> > backend is the same as Firefox.
>
> > >> * * At the end of the ordeal, you're dropped into the monitor at the
> > >> Apple II with the admonition to remove the disk. *Seems like most folks
> > >> would want to be left at the Applesoft prompt, and would also want to be
> > >> advised to boot the disk (with PR#6 or C600G, if they're still at the
> > >> monitor).
>
> > > I'll get in the next release.
>
> > I wonder if "lda #$06", "jsr $FE95" would be somewhat better than just
> > jumping to C600? (it's the equivalent of a pr#6)
>
> The end of the operation could offer to do it for them, but you
> wouldn't want to reboot by default.

v6 released, changes:

1. [return] to reboot message
2. s6d1 in readme
3. Uploaded latest source

To do:

Fix fonts.