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Comment on FdInstall false-positive, again by Steve(spt)

Steve(spt) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:31:55 +0000

I have just had this FP with PCTools Spyware Doctor V6, and an older copy of this driver. I have downloaded the lastest version of Fdinstall, and the driver installed without any problems. No FP’s with SD.

Comment on SAM/IP by Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:06:18 +0000

uIP now has full udp handling and a dns lookup I got the Sam to look up http://www.samcoupe.com which it happily did, change the name and again fine This uses full UDP packet handling to send DNS query and listen for DNS responses.

Comment on fdrawcmd.sys license update by Peace

Peace — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:30:20 +0000

I only want to say thanks for your very well driver!!!

Regards, Peace

Comment on SAM/IP by Simon

Simon — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:49:06 +0000

Excellent! Please let me know when you do…

Comment on SAM/IP by Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:58:30 +0000

Well, ive just finished a major deadline so im just typing up my z80 article then ill start on uip again

Comment on SAM/IP by Simon

Simon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:54:37 +0000

I’ve finished converting all I need for cpc/ip, and it didn’t take more than about an hour.

It’s just a minor limitation of the original Comet syntax, and not a problem that pyz80 is faithful to it!

That said, if I run into anything similar I’ll be sure to check with you first next time – thanks!

Comment on SAM/IP by Andrew Collier

Andrew Collier — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:43:43 +0000

You should have said! I doubt it would be too much work to extend pyz80 to accept strings inside DEFB. If you’re porting a lot of this source it may be worthwhile for me to extend the source parsing to accept unmodified files in this other format. Would that be useful, or have you passed that point by now?

Comment on fdrawcmd.sys license update by Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:02:01 +0000

GNU GPL seems like a better option for allowing 3rd party changes to be fed back into the main project. If I’m going to open it up, I’d prefer it to stay open for everyone – and BSD doesn’t /require/ that.

What makes you think BSD would be a better option?

Comment on fdrawcmd.sys license update by Luchezar Georgiev

Luchezar Georgiev — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:13:54 +0000

Why exactly the GNU GPL? The “modified” BSD licence is much less restrictive and still GPL-compatible.

Comment on Atom Lite CF support by Simon

Simon — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:25:51 +0000

It wouldn’t be much work to do it, though it’ll never be as fully functional as the Windows version. The FDRAWCMD interface support in the Linux kernel lacks the flexibility to terminate write commands early, since it’s not something people would normally need to do. That prevents writing CRC errors, short sectors, mixed density tracks, and a few other quirks required by copy protected disks.

That said, if you only want to read/write regular SAM and CP/M formats then you’ll be fine with the standard support:

To read from SAM disk to raw image:
dd if=/dev/fd0u800 of=image.mgt

To write the image back to a formatted disk:
dd if=image.mgt of=/dev/fd0u800

To format a new SAM disk:
fdformat /dev/fd0u800

If the /dev/fd0u800 device doesn’t exist, try /dev/.static/dev/fd0u800 instead. Or for CP/M disks change the last part of the name to fd0u720.

You’ll only be able to use .mgt (old-style 819200 byte .dsk images) with that method, but it might be better than nothing for now!