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Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II

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Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 12:52:24 PM UTC-6, schmidtd wrote:
>> On 11/19/2015 11:01 AM, Mark Lemmert wrote:
>>> The result is the disk drive makes a strange noise (not the usual
>>> griding/recaliberation) and "ERROR 8" is output to the video screen.
>>> The floppy is unresponsive to "CATALOG".
>> 
>> Something is definitely wrong there.  The disk image should reconstitute 
>> correctly.  Are you able to format, boot, and catalog specifically that 
>> piece of floppy media?  Given that particular set of symptoms, I'd 
>> suspect the drive really didn't write the disk image correctly, or maybe 
>> it's HD media you're trying to write on.
>> 
>> And you can test the opposite direction as well - make a known-good, 
>> bootable disk on your IIe, send it back to the PC, and have AC write 
>> your file on that.  Then, send it back to the Apple IIe.  That round 
>> trip should expose where the problem is.
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> Yes, the floppy media I'm using can be formatted with DOS 3.3 on my Apple
> IIe, booted, and cataloged. I tried different floppy disks as well just to be sure. 
> 
> Your suggestion on testing in the opposite direction worked! I used
> ADTPro to create a disk image of a bootable DOS 3.3 disk, used
> AppleCommander to add the binary file output from CC65, and the disk
> image transferred back to the Apple IIe just fine. 
> 
> I'm very excited to have a working solution. Thank you very much!! 
> 
> Out of curiosity, when you create disk images on your PC that you
> transfer to your Apple II, how do you go about it? Though I have a
> working solution, I'm still curious as to what was going wrong when I
> tried it that way. I tried many combinations with AppleCommander,
> Ciderpress, command line, GUI, CC65 binary, SB-Assembler binary,
> different floppies, etc, etc. and just kept hitting a brick wall, but it
> sounds like there is a way to do it. 
> 
> One other question if I may. In reading your posts in the discussion Andy
> McFadden posted a link to, it sounds you've fully automated the build
> process with CC65 and AppleCommander (it sounds like a cool setup).
> 
> I'm trying to do a simple automation setup using batch files. The snag
> I'm hitting is with the Apple Commander line:
> 
> java -jar ac.jar -cc65 foobar.dsk FOOBAR B ^< foobar
> 
> I narrowed the problem down to the "<" symbol. All research I've done
> indicates that ^ is the proper escape character in a batch file but this
> command line hangs when run in a batch file (I hit control-C, it asks if
> I want to terminate the batch file, and then I'm returned to the command
> prompt, and the file doesn't get added to the disk image). 
> 
> I improvised with this:
> 
> java -jar ac.jar -cc65 foobar.dsk FOOBAR B %1
> 
> Then execute with:
> 
> go.bat < foobar
> 
> The downside of course is that I can't fully automate the process since
> the assembly stage comes before this step, and the copy to the AppleWin
> folder comes after it. 
> 
> I'm not sure if running AppleCommander via a batch file is something
> you're familiar with considering you have an ANT setup (I don't know much
> about ANTs yet), but I thought I'd ask.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas you may have. 
> 
> 
> Mark

I'll bet the problem is default sector order...
-- 
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II:  http://michaeljmahon.com

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Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 08:01 -0800
  Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Benoit0123 <bgilon@free.fr> - 2015-11-19 16:21 +0000
    Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 18:06 -0800
  Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Andy McFadden <thefadden@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 08:24 -0800
    Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 18:03 -0800
  Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2015-11-19 13:52 -0500
    Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 18:02 -0800
      Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-11-19 20:11 -0600
        Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2015-11-19 22:09 -0500
      Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2015-11-19 22:48 -0500
        Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 16:17 -0800
          Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 10:39 -0800
            Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Andy McFadden <thefadden@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 11:28 -0800
              Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2015-11-23 16:29 -0500
        Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt) - 2015-11-21 13:35 +0000
          Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Mark Lemmert <mark.lemmert@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 11:44 -0800
  Re: Subject Transferring Cross Assembler code from Mac/PC to Apple II Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 16:56 -0700

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