New update for Forem XE Professional (originally restored by AMIS)

[rcamp48]

Hi  guys ... I got everything working including the file section, but when I go to download a file I get a Crtl X character an i aborts the download. I have put some files online so they are there. I will post the ATRs later today, its a working system has been running for 8 or 9 months now. Sorry but some one was trying to log in while I was cleaning things up, the BBS is up and running I was removing passwords from the first ATR. There is a new SYSOP account on the ATR, PW is 1111 Phone number is 1111, I lefty all of the F-net passwords in. Give me another 5 mins t clean things up on my release copy and I will uppload it, all 8 drives are in use for files , each ATR is 16 Megs in size.

 

Russ

 

Edited September 12, 2023 by rcamp48

[sanny]

How is this related to "Atari 5200 / 8-bit Programming"? I don't see any source code here.

[_The Doctor__]

I don't see the .atr's either

[+DjayBee]

He does everything possible to hide his published information from the public.

[+Stephen]

21 minutes ago, DjayBee said:

He does everything possible to hide his published information from the public.

That's good though - it's less non-working software to get out.

[rcamp48]

8 hours ago, Stephen said:

That's good though - it's less non-working software to get out.

Steven this one works perfectly, I just had a setback and had to create a program to write sub-directories for Altirra, I will be posting the executable and the source code...here is the post that I put on Facebook: Everything works, the reason I have not yet released the updated copy of Forem XEP, is that a couple of my 16 Meg dissk got corrupted and I have to rebuild them from scratch, these were all of the download disk with 4 usable subdirectories and 200 files in each sub-directory. Good old error 144 came up on two of them.

 

Anyways here is my Altirra Directory and Sub-Directory Creator with a bit of a writeup and explanation:

 

 

This is a post that may be of interest to some users here. Lets say that you are running an Atari BBS , and you want to somehow put some ATRs, ATX, XEX files into an Altirra 16 Meg setup with some form of directory structure.

OK you could mount a folder with many subdirectories an files in it, say from the Tosek library, however, you will quickly fin out that Spartados has a limit of say 120 files per subdirectory (OK I got away with 200 files per directory, but that ATR corrupted way too easy.

Is there a solution yet ? An automated way of doing this ? And is it customizable, ????

Yes there is , I have taken the time to modify my Transfolio Shell to do just that, the new program is called The Altirra File Directory Creator.

With this program , you can choose your drive letter, the master sub-directory, the sub-sub directory and how many files there will be per directory..

The result is a super program that with my entire Atari Library you will be able to write ATRs of 16 Meg for any Atari BBS that you are running.

Here is the program:.

 

Alltirra Directory and Sub Directories Creator.zip

 

PS: so far it works really good, I will put a version on my server with the entre Atari library.

 

[rcamp48]

11 hours ago, sanny said:

How is this related to "Atari 5200 / 8-bit Programming"? I don't see any source code here.

Source code can be uploaded now, just need to re-create my ATRs , had two disks with good old error 144s, I don't want to release non-working software so I am holding off.