Android8675 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 When using SIDE2 with Ultimate, you should use the PBI BIOS and enable "SIDE Hardware w/button" in the Ultimate BIOS setup screen. You can get the PBI BIOS here. The SDX image (on the same page) contains FDISK, etc, but nothing inherently required to get the HDD to work. If FDISK can't find the adapter, more thank likely SIDE Hardware isn't turned on in the Ultimate menu. Thanks fjc, SIDE is enabled in U1MB, and do I enable System > Hard Disk... as well (choosing SIDE2) or leave that alone? This is all more confusing than it needs to be I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yes, you do, and specify your VHD, there. And trust me, it's only weird the first time. Once you see how much faster it is, you'll never ever go back. No joke. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yes, you do, and specify your VHD, there. And trust me, it's only weird the first time. Once you see how much faster it is, you'll never ever go back. No joke. -Thom OK, so whenever I enable Hard Disk the system stops at Ultimate PBI v1.0 and hangs there. Time to show some setting screens... http://imgur.com/a/O1gwb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Altirra: System > Console Switches > make sure they're ALL off. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Altirra: System > Console Switches > make sure they're ALL off. -Thom Damn it, I remember someone telling me that SDX had to be off, but for a long time it was greyed out. Couldn't figure out why, of course this time it wasn't. Unchecked it and all is well with the world. Thanks all. Please return to BBS talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 No problem. Be sure for performance's sake, to use 512 byte sectors when defining partitions for the BBS. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 My trusty "Atari" waiting on phone calls. And yes, that is TWO cups of coffee. Am loaded for bear, today. -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 My trusty "Atari" waiting on phone calls. What's the current address? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 96.226.245.101 port 9001... are you the one sitting there at the EOL prompt? -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Looks like i'm gonna need to inject timers into the code, sooner than later...Albert seems to be stuck at the front door... For now, I will implement it without a VBI...and improve it later.. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Did you take it down? Edit: What happens if someone else is using the system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 the connection will simply drop until the other user logs off. I just did a check again from a remote location, everything seems to be ok. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 HAHAHAHA... Thanks for exposing a little hole I need to plug! Blank passwords ARE indeed possible. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 and yes, the message board is currently hidden, as I am writing the code to support it right now.... -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Host does not respond :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Interesting to see how many people are from Texas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 it should, now.. Albert was on. Al: Yeah, I know, right?! whodathunkit? /me is living in Denton. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 guys, PLEASE don't hang up in the middle of a connection. I have no code to handle disconnections yet, and the serial port goes off into never never land when that happens. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 ok.. just implemented header list, in the message menu, and am realizing that I need to go through and smash the bugs collected thus far... ugh. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 guys, PLEASE don't hang up in the middle of a connection. I have no code to handle disconnections yet, and the serial port goes off into never never land when that happens. -Thom Oops... guilty as charged! I was testing the macros on my terminal program trying to figure out why there is a heart in between each character of my login handle when I use the macro on your new BBS. Not your problem for now as it also does this on Oasis Jr (I think). However, They work fine on Express PRO BBSes. Don't know what the difference is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 Checked in changes to flatmsg code, including test harness, to now use date/timestamps. Also made flatmsg use bbslib.) Due to the size of flatmsg and the test harness, and the fact that I allocate an 8K block for message creation, PLEASE RUN FLATMSG WITH 'X', or it will crash (and leave open files, keep CLX handy!) -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 Who the hell is calling and just disconnecting? -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idavis Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Who the hell is calling and just disconnecting? -Thom Thom, That might be me. I was testing out using putty (so I could redefine the backspace.) I tried putty twice, and after using just telnet but it couldn't resolve the connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Who the hell is calling and just disconnecting? Not me. Are there any ATASCII terminal emulators for the Mac? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idavis Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 So I am guessing it was my putty session crapping it up. I just used telnet and it worked just fine. I will have to look at see what I need to futz with in putty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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