David Schmidt has updated ADTPro to v2.0.2. The first update to ADTPro since March 2015, this release takes advantage the Uthernet II network card and John Brooks’ ProDOS v2.4.1 operating system, as well as assorted bugfixes.

Volume 19, Issue 2 (June 2014) of Juiced.GS, the longest-running Apple II publication in print, has been mailed to all subscribers. This issue features a celebration of the BASIC programming language’s fiftieth birthday; an interview with programmer Ron Graff; Charles Mangin’s introduction to using 3D printers to create Apple II parts; a behind-the-scenes look at how ADTPro accomplishes bootstrapping; reviews of the book Vintage Game Consoles and the chiptune documentaries Reformat the Planet and Europe in 8 Bits; and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS‘s second quarterly issue of 2014. Subscriptions are available at $19 for United States customers, $24 for readers in Canada and Mexico, and $27 for international customers, with several free sample issues available as PDFs.

David Schmidt has announced the release of the latest version of the ADTPro utility.  Here’s what’s new:

Just a few little niceties this go-round:

Inspired by Sheldon Simms’ project to stay serial for not only booting but also disk serving, I combined Speediboot and the Virtual Serial Driver so that you can boot into the ProDOS BASIC interpreter with VSDrive active.  No floppies required, and all makes, models, and serial devices that ADTPro supports work.  The process is described here:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrap.html#Starting_with_Virtual_Serial_Drive

Since AppleCommander is an integral part of ADTPro now, I added a little command line invoker for the embedded AC jar.

Then there’s the thing I really wanted for myself: fixing the batch numbering scheme to start at 1 and not 0, and re-starting when the prefix name is changed.

Finally something that only the occasional person will need… you know who you are… floppy disks that don’t have a recognized filesytem will always be written in DOS physical order.

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net

1.2.7 – April 18, 2013

New functionality:

* [VDrive] Added the ability to bootstrap into ProDOS with
VSDrive active

* [Server] Added a command-line invoker for AppleCommander

Bug fixes:

* [Server] Start the numerical part of batch name at 1, not
0; reset the counter when a batch name changes

* [Server] 5-1/4″ disk images with unrecognized filesystems
are always written with DOS-ordered physical interleaving

David Schmidt has released another update to his popular ADTPro disk transfer utility.

New functionality:
  * [Client] ProDOS Serial and Ethernet clients can extract and send
    nibble images
  * [VDisk] Virtual drive over a comms link – any serial or Ethernet
    connection can host a virtual ProDOS disk on slot 2, drive 1

Bug fixes:
  * [Server] Some serial adapters were exhibiting serious slowdown
    problems in some situations (usually non-FTDI, usually non-Mac)
  * [Client] IP configuration screen was missing some dots

As always, this and all previous versions can be downloaded at http://adtpro.sourceforge.net

This month on Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, Mike and Ken chat with David Schmidt, the programmer responsible for ADTPro. Beyond his own program, David has also contributed to the development of Davex, GSport, AppleCommander, CiderPress, OpenEmulator, DiscFerret, CFFA3000 — and much, much more. Collectively, the show’s hosts marvel at the deluge of Apple II games that are being ported to iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system … though we question the direction Jordan Mechner is taking the classic Karateka. Apple-1 computers continue to fetch exorbitant prices at live auctions, while iPads and IMSAIs fail to sell on eBay — though the latter may soon get a Kickstarter from Vince Briel. Finally, Ken quietly broods while Mike and David enthusiastically sing the praises of their favorite computer, the Apple III.

Find the show at the Open Apple Web site or in the iTunes and Zune podcast directories.

David Schmidt has released the latest version of the do-it-all disk image transfer utility, ADTPro.  Version 1.2.2 includes the following updates:

1.2.2 – July 22, 2012

New functionality:

   [Server] ShrinkIt “SDK” disk images are recognized and dealt with as any other disk image

Bug fixes:

   [Client] A bug was introduced in 1.2.1 due to an assembler upgrade that made many DOS 3.3 image sends fail to send correctly

   [Client] SOS version volume display function regularly crashed

   [Client] Speediboot pauses longer after serial reset to give various machines enough time to recover before sending out the first download request.

Download binaries, source code and documentation from the ADTPro project page on Sourceforge.

David Schmidt posted to comp.sys.apple2 this morning that the latest version of ADTPro is now available to Apple II (and III) users.  The text of his post:

This release, contrary to its ".0" suffix, isn’t revolutionary – I just ran out of digits in the mod level counter before I came up with anything extraordinary to release.  This is a collection of bug fixes and general useability improvements.

There’s growing interest in 64-bit Windows, and the RXTX dll for that platform wasn’t working correctly – so I sourced a build from our friends at cloudhopper (http://www.cloudhopper.com/opensource/rxtx/) that has been beta tested by several folks.

http://adtpro.sourceforge.net

1.2.0 – January 14, 2012

Bug fixes:

  * [Server] Integrate Cloudhopper’s 64-bit Windows RXTX dll – fixes 2-way Windows 7 64-bit serial communications

  * [Server] If a serial configuration isn’t usable, it doesn’t just put up the dialog box saying you should change the configuration – it brings up the change configuration dialog so you can actually do it

  * [Server] Be consistent when automatically adding file suffixes (.dsk vs. .DSK)

  * [Client] Don’t lock out interrupts during program execution – it hinders things like the GS Desk Accessory bringup

  * [Client] Apple /// responds a little better to "disk switched" notifications like those produced by the CFFA300 card

  * [Client] Apple /// Ethernet screen layout was missing DHCP configuration option

Juiced.GS Volume 13, Issue 2 (June 2008) shipped on Friday to all subscribers. This issue features an interview with Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com; Mike Maginnis’ review of ADTPro; a collective look at KansasFests past; a survey of disk copy protection methods by Antoine Vignau — and much, much more!

This is Juiced.GS’s second issue of 2008. Subscriptions are available for $18 for United States customers and $26 for international customers.