Ok, I’ll admit it. I’ve been slacking like the best of them. I’m not horribly unsatisified with my progress, especially this year. The first four months of this year I achieved the following: * Whole...
Archive - 2007
java client works
Well I’m producing correct .ADF’s with the new java client. The terminal mode is also finished and working. I have some various odds and ends to wrap up with it, namely allowing the user to save his...
java client preview
I’ve put up a preview of the java client in action. It’s a 2 minute video with narration. You’ll need a DivX codec installed in order to view it. I probably could have messed with compressing this...
java software progress
This morning I added MFM decoding, header and data checksumming and checking to the java client. I was somewhat worried about doing the MFM decoding, but it was all worry for nothing. Once you wrap your head around how...
java software
I’ve been working on the Java software the last couple days. Trying to read from RXTX is producing only 3968 bytes per read. It looks like my USB -> serial converter uses a “transfer size” of 4096...
java and portability
While I have some experience with Java, I’ve never tried to run my stuff cross-platform. Never a real need. While most of the Java stuff has yet to be written, I took some basic serial code and GUI stuff, and...
Marco Veneri
I had the great pleasure of trading emails with Marco Veneri today. He is the original author of the Amiga Floppy Reader(AFR), of which I refer to very frequently, and have based most of my work to date on. I have...
thinking about cross-platform support
To make this accessible to everyone, I’d really like to add support for more than just Windows. I thought that Java would be my ticket to freedom here, but that is turning sour real fast. From what I’m able...
added byte-sync to my transfer routine
Well, after much thought, pondering, and discussion with David, I finally implemented a working byte-sync routine to my SX software. I don’t have it fully working with the PC side software yet, because this...