plbyrd

Hello! I've set up an IRC server on the Adam Wiki server. You can now chat at irc.adamwiki.info on port 16667. Please notice the port is NOT 6667 as that port is banned by GoDaddy's VPS hosting. I will try to always have the room #ADAMChat up and running for you guys. Feel free to open other rooms as you see fit.

To get the disk creator up and running you need to select a target directory for it in the right panel first, then click the button to create a disk image.

For posterities sake, here's the URL to the F18A VGA board: http://codehackcreate.com/store#!/F18A-V1-7-Video-Board/p/14022176/category=0

I'm in need of an Adam power supply, or someone willing to mount the appropriate components in my Adam console. I would like it to be able to power both the Adam and my IDE card, too. As a matter of fact, I would like someone to properly install my IDE and RAM boards inside my Adam with all cabling inside the closed lid. It would also be extra cool to have access to the CF card via a plate mounted in a DDP slot. If someone feels they are up to the challenge, please contact me. Also, if someone has the VGA card upgrade for sale I'd love to obtain one and have it installed, too.

You should check this out: http://adamwiki.info/Adam_Technical_Reference_Chapter_3_2

Don't forget the Adam. I'm all over an Adam mod.

Please mark as sold. I have found a buyer for the collection.

After pressure from several people, I've decided to further split the collection. Please see the spread sheet for prices. Prices do NOT include delivery or shipping. In addition to the hardware, software, and books are several desks that need to go as well. I'm willing to let these go to good homes for very low prices.

OK, I'm willing to split up the collection as such: Apple: IIgs, //c+, //c, drives, Image Writer and books. $500, you pick it up, $650 + shipping if I ship it. Atari: 800xl, SIO2USB, 3 game carts, TV. $150 you pick it up, $200 + shipping if I ship it. Amiga: A2000, 68030/30, 8088 Bridge Board, 80GB SATA SSD, SCSI-SATA Adapter, Lots of software. $500 you pick it up, too much to ship. CBM 8-Bit: Too much to list here, see the spreadsheet. $1250 You pick it up, absolutely no splitting or shipping. Some perspective: http://www.amibay.com/entry.php?136-Selling-my-collection-Why

Most of it is in springfield, TN. There are still some books and software at my house in Clarksville, TN.

I have reduced the price to $1500.

I have migrated the Hayesduino repository from CodePlex to GitHub. If someone would like to take over ownership then I'd be happy to oblige. https://github.com/plbyrd/hayesduino

Here are pictures of the items that are not currently boxed up: http://forsale.paytonbyrd.com/

I have a very nice collection of hardware and software for Commodore, Amiga, Atari, and Apple for sale. You can see a list of the highlights at: http://1drv.ms/1Ef5TRn A list of things you may be interested in: Flat 128 w/JiffyDOS and 64K Video Upgrade 1541 Ultimate Gen 1 w/Ethernet 2x EasyFlash 3 1764 w/512K MSSIAH RA Thunderdrive 4GB CMD RamLink (needs love) Apple IIgs w/2MB Focus IDE+CF 3.5 Unidisk 5.25 Drive for IIgs Apple //c+ Apple //c w/Power Supply A2000 w/80GB SSD (SCSI to SATA adapter) 68030/30 w/16MB of RAM SCSI CD-ROM Commodore 2002 Monitor Parallel IP Link Hundreds of disks Many originals I WILL NOT part up the collection. It's all or nothing. Bring a U-Haul, you're gonna need it. $2000 or best offer.

OK, for posterity's sake I'm posting this here. What I've found is that I can create a bootable image by making a blank disk image of any size, copying in the boot block that loads a file named HARDDISK and then copy over both the HARDISK and FILEMAN files to the new image. Also, the name of the image's first directory does not matter, but the directory ID must be 55 AA 00 FF which I suppose is hard coded into the boot block's code. Now, I was able to view the partition table in the HARDDISK software once ADAMEm booted from this fresh disk image. I was able to create a new partition. Going to my hex editor I found my new partition at $00100000. So I copied the partition info and pasted into $00200000. Rebooted ADAMEm and it did not see the new partition. So I copied it again, and pasted it into $00300000... and it found it. SO, I was right, there does not appear to be a master table of partitions. Instead, it simply looks for "partitions" at odd boundaries of $00100000 and simply either finds a partition or doesn't. I hope that someone can validate what I'm saying so that I can document it on the ADAM Wiki with some confidence. I am already making the changes necessary to ADAMDsk to create these partitions.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I will contact them directly. I posted these message here because I didn't know who specifically to go to.

After more careful analysis, I found the following directory structures: 00200000 RecipeFilr 00300000 Klondyke 00400000 Smart_Filer 00600000 SmartBasic 00800000 Snowman 00900000 Smart_Filer 00A00000 FlashCard 00C00000 Ltrs&Forms 00E00000 VideoTunes 00F00000 Snowman 01000000 Addictus 01200000 Klondyke 01400000 Blank 01500000 Ltrs&Forms 01600000 Blank 01800000 Blank 01A00000 Blank 01B00000 Addictus 01C00000 Blank 01E00000 Blank It does appear that the directories are always on a boundary of $00100000. That means the table I'm looking for may be using a 16-bit number to specify the offset of the "partition". If that's the case, these things will be nearly impossible to find. I'm gonna keep digging.

I'm trying to decipher the file format for the MicroFox/Micro Innovations filesystem using the replacement image for the first disk image supplied with the MicroFox 100MB kit. From what I can tell, it starts with a standard disk image as a directory block exists at $00000400. In that directory block is a mixture of junk that doesn't appear to lead to any valid data since none of the pointers lead to any valid data. So I've been trying to locate some table indicating the location of the various "partitions" in the file. What I have figured out is a list of valid "partitions" at the following locations. 00200000 RecipeFilr 00300000 Klondyke 00600000 SmartBasic 00000021 00900000 Smart_Filer 00F00000 Snowman 01200000 Klondyke 01800000 Blank 01A00000 Blank 01B00000 Addictus 01C00000 Blank 01E00000 Blank This data was discovered by simply following every $100000 bytes and looking for a directory block $400 bytes into each. I've searched the image for references to these locations and cannot find any, thus leading me to believe that these locations are somehow encoded into whatever table holds this data. If anyone has documentation about the Micro Innovations drive layout, that would be the awesome thing in the world.

Multi-block directories is next on my hit-list. I basically need to study some images that have multi-block directories and add the support in my image library. Vista may go the way of the dodo, but the underlying functionality that allows it to use .Net 4.5 where XP cannot, is the DNA for Windows 7, 8, and 10. Microsoft says that Windows 10 will be the last major release and that changes will come in a more organic fashion. I suspect that the bones instilled with Vista will always be the basis for Windows in the future.

New version up tonight. This one can create blank disk images. Same URL as before: http://adamdsk.codeplex.com

Windows 7 and 8 also ship with Hyper-V, which is free and Microsoft allows you to run XP for free in a VM (no license needed) on Windows 7 and 8.

Why won't they run on 32-bit Windows 7? I can see 64-bit causing an issue, but Windows 7 32-bit with backwards compatibility turned on runs practically everything that XP runs.

Sure, the URL is http://clrhome.org/asm/

I have a whole metric crap-ton of info that NIAD has given to me to curate and put on the Wiki. I'm curious, what kind of information should go up next?