ADTPro 0.1.5

March 18, 2007

New functionality:

• Added support for audio transfers and bootsrapping using a host sound card and the Apple cassette port.

• Apple IIc support (disable hardware handshaking) is now selectable via a checkbox in the File menu.

• Added a logging/tracing capability via checkbox in the File menu. Enabling tracing logs verbose tracing information to a file name ADTProTrace.txt in the server's startup directory.

Bug fixes:

• Managing serial timeouts better fixes two problems:

• "Hang" when disconnecting on *nix boxes, especially after transfers; though sometimes it still seems to take a while (i.e. several seconds) to fully disconnect after hitting the disconnect button

• Dropped data on some Wintel chipsets due to (erroneous) rapid toggling of port timeout values.

ADTPro 0.1.4

December 30, 2006

New functionality:

• Ethernet version now has a timeout function at the client end. This addresses one class of problem we have with UDP dropping packets.

• Included DOS ADT 1.31 in the package as well as part of bare-metal bootstrapping function. The main improvement of DOS ADT 1.31 over 1.30 is the capability of self-saving the configuration (no need for the Applesoft configuration program)

ADTPro 0.1.3

December 15, 2006

New functionality:

• Added support for Ethernet UDP transport via the http://a2retrosystems.com Uthernetcard. The best reliability is achieved with machines on a wired network in the same subnet (on the same ethernet switch). Sending (Apple/client->host/server) has reliable retry logic since the server, in Java, can control timeout intervals. Receiving is a different story. It won't give you corrupt images, it'll just hang if acknowledgement packets get lost.
  TODO: add a timeout function to the client side as well.

• Added a batch file for Windows and a shell script for Linux/OSX to start the server.

ADTPro 0.1.2

November 27, 2006

New functionality:

• Added a "batch send" mode to repeatedly send the same volume (i.e. one floppy after another)

• ADTPro server can send the ADTPro client as bootstrap text; the destination Apple would have to already be running ProDOS

Bug fix:

• Split up bootstrap text into lines of 8 bytes each to help the slowest Apples keep up

ADTPro 0.1.1

November 16, 2006

New functionality:

• ADTPro server now has the ability to serve bare-metal bootstrapping data (ESDOS II, DOS ADT client)

• DOS ADT client enhanced to use either SSC or IIgs native serial communications at speeds up to 115kbps

ADTPro 0.0.9

September 23, 2006

Bug fix:

• 2IMG images with optional headers/chunks failed to transfer properly - patch also supplied to the AppleCommander project where the bug originated

ADTPro 0.0.8

September 20, 2006

New functionality:

• You can interrupt the interminable volume scan with the escape key

Bug fixes:

• Cured Linux/OSX's "hang" when disconnecting

• Initiating any communication now resets the comms card - makes things much more reliable with starting/stopping the host end at random intervals

• Greyed out the port/speed buttons on the server while connected to make it more clear exactly what you can change and when

• Turn "cold start" back off again on the client once it's been invoked - to keep from saving the cold start state when the user saves the configuration!

• Switched to cc65 compiler/assembler suite. ca65 is compatible with lots more platforms than SB-Assembler, though it is slower.

• Refactored the code to make communications routines somewhat more "pluggable." We aren't quite at the point of device drivers yet, but it's getting closer. I long for the days of the simplicty of ADT's one-file assembly! It used to be so elegant!

ADTPro 0.0.7

August 27, 2006

New functionality:

• Support for native IIgs serial (modem) port at a maximum rate of 115,200 BPS

• Ability to "cold start" by resetting configuration parameters back to "factory defaults" (useful when a configuration as saved is incompatible with a particular machine:

bload adtpro:poke 2052,1:call 2051

Later versions moved this poke by one byte:

bload adtpro:poke 2053,1:call 2051

ADTPro 0.0.6

August 10, 2006

Bug fix:

• Cosmetic fix for IIgs native send progress indicator

ADTPro 0.0.5

July 30, 2006

New functionality:

• Support for native IIgs serial (modem) port at a maximum rate of 19,200 BPS

Bug fixes:

• Handle serial port-in-use exceptions at host end

• A few usability tweaks along the way