GetPort():@Port
FreeMem():FreeBytes/4
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A "/" and a digit after a parmeter means it takes the specified number
+A "/" and a digit after a parameter means it takes the specified number
of bytes. (When making a tool call, you must push space on the stack
for any result values *before* pushing the input values.)
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When CiderPress encounters data that it can't interpret, it stops trying to read from that section of the WAV file. For this reason, damaged entries will usually be shorter than undamaged ones. If a file appears to have the correct length but the checksum still doesn't match, it means the signal was sufficiently distorted to make a '0' bit look like a '1' bit, which is actually pretty hard to do. In most cases the decoder will either make an accurate determination or will conclude that the signal is too distorted to process. So far only one case has been found where the checksum was deliberately altered, as part of a copy protection scheme (Sargon II).
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If the tape has more than one program on it, you can usually tell if it's multiple copies of the same thing by comparing lengths and checksums. If the checkums say "good" but have different values, you probably have two different programs, or two slightly different versions of the same program.
+If the tape has more than one program on it, you can usually tell if it's multiple copies of the same thing by comparing lengths and checksums. If the checksums say "good" but have different values, you probably have two different programs, or two slightly different versions of the same program.
Saving the Data
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The pathname and modification date will be displayed but may not be changed. (To change the pathname, use the rename feature.) The file type will be shown in the drop-down box, and may be changed by selecting a new entry. Tip: if you click in the drop box and type a letter, you will move to the next entry that begins with that letter. This can make it easier to find a file type by its three-letter abbreviation.
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The auxilliary type (usually called "aux type") is shown as a 4-digit hexadecimal number, and may be edited freely.
+The auxiliary type (usually called "aux type") is shown as a 4-digit hexadecimal number, and may be edited freely.
The type description is based on both the file type and the aux type. For example, type "LBR $E0" with aux type "8002" is listed as a "ShrinkIt (NuFX) document" in the Apple File Type Notes.
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There are actually three formats here. All of them convert common symbols and accented characters from the IIgs fonts to Windows fonts. Not all of the symbols have equivalents, but many of them do. Text written in languages other than English should convert correctly.
The supported formats are:
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Super Hi-Res Graphics (PIC/PNT or 32K BIN, 320/640x200)
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First introduced on the Apple IIgs, Super-Res was the first mode largely devoid of video idiosyncracies. When you set pixels to certain colors, the output on an RGB monitor was exactly what you expected. The resolution, which could be changed on every line, was 200 lines of either 320 pixels across with 4 bits of color per pixel, or 640 pixels across with 2 bits of color per pixel. The way colors in the file were translated to colors on screen involves some minor color palette gymnastics. The output of the converter is a 256-color 640x400 BMP.
+First introduced on the Apple IIgs, Super-Res was the first mode largely devoid of video idiosyncrasies. When you set pixels to certain colors, the output on an RGB monitor was exactly what you expected. The resolution, which could be changed on every line, was 200 lines of either 320 pixels across with 4 bits of color per pixel, or 640 pixels across with 2 bits of color per pixel. The way colors in the file were translated to colors on screen involves some minor color palette gymnastics. The output of the converter is a 256-color 640x400 BMP.
Super-Res images were also the first to be regularly compressed, which isn't surprising since they're 4x as large as standard hi-res. CiderPress can convert images in the following formats:
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One caution: if you format a disk for ProDOS, and then format it with your camera, you may find that it still appears to have some ProDOS files on it. (CiderPress should identify it as an MS-DOS "FAT" filesystem, but if the camera uses a non-standard boot block it may not be detected correctly.) Some files may appear to be damaged. This is because the camera's format routine didn't zero out all of the blocks, so some of the ProDOS directory structure is still present. Attempting to read or write files to the volume as if it were a ProDOS disk is not recommended. The safe way to switch between Apple II and Windows formatting is to use the image-copy tool to overwrite the entire CF card. Be aware that formatting with a camera can reduce the number of blocks available on the drive, which will make copying images onto it impossible: the image copier only works if the destination volume is at least as large as the source volume.
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The speed at which CF cards are read or written depends primarly on your card reader. USB2.0 readers will be faster than USB1.x, and Firewire, PCMCIA, or IDE interfaces will usually be faster than USB2.0. Also, some cards have a higher speed rating than others. Speeds of 200-400KB/sec are typical when copying from a USB1.x device, while writing to it may reach 700KB/sec. Writing tends to be faster than reading because of block caching.
+The speed at which CF cards are read or written depends primarily on your card reader. USB2.0 readers will be faster than USB1.x, and Firewire, PCMCIA, or IDE interfaces will usually be faster than USB2.0. Also, some cards have a higher speed rating than others. Speeds of 200-400KB/sec are typical when copying from a USB1.x device, while writing to it may reach 700KB/sec. Writing tends to be faster than reading because of block caching.
CiderPress assumes that the first partition on a CFFA card will be ProDOS or HFS. If it's not, the image will not be detected as CFFA.
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Hard Drives
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Apple II or Macintosh hard drives can be connected, assuming you have the necessary hardware (e.g. SCSI interface). Non-SCSI drives, such as the Applied Ingenuity InnerDrive or Vulcan drives, may not be formatted with the Macintosh partioning scheme and hence may be inaccessible.
+Apple II or Macintosh hard drives can be connected, assuming you have the necessary hardware (e.g. SCSI interface). Non-SCSI drives, such as the Applied Ingenuity InnerDrive or Vulcan drives, may not be formatted with the Macintosh partitioning scheme and hence may be inaccessible.
Figuring out the size of a hard drive is a bit tricky under Windows, which uses different interfaces in different versions of the OS. Some interfaces return different answers depending on what version you're running. CiderPress currently scans the drive to determine its size.
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The sizes used are for the entire partition. If you formatted a 32MB ProDOS volume in a 1GB partition on a CFFA card, CiderPress will treat it as a 1GB volume, even though ProDOS is only on the first part of it. Extracting that ProDOS volume may be awkward.
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Hard drives with Macintosh-style partioning have explicit filesystem identification for each partition. That is, each partition will be labeled as ProDOS, HFS, a device driver, or whatever is appropriate. CiderPress does not currently have the ability to change these labels. Copying the wrong thing onto a partition, such as putting a ProDOS volume into a partition meant for HFS, could have unexpected results.
+Hard drives with Macintosh-style partitioning have explicit filesystem identification for each partition. That is, each partition will be labeled as ProDOS, HFS, a device driver, or whatever is appropriate. CiderPress does not currently have the ability to change these labels. Copying the wrong thing onto a partition, such as putting a ProDOS volume into a partition meant for HFS, could have unexpected results.
Bear in mind that old hard drives are pretty slow by today's standards. A 2GB drive purchased in the mid-1990s will deliver 4-5MB/sec on bulk reads, which means it'll take about 8 minutes to back up the entire drive. These drives tended to have small caches and slow seeks though, so it can take 30 seconds to a minute for the contents of the disk to be loaded, because scanning the list of files requires lots of single-block reads.
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You can also copy documents to other programs. To select the entire document, click on the document to set the input focus, then hit Ctrl-A to select all and Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard. Switch to another application (Windows WordPad and Microsoft Word are the most appropriate) and hit Ctrl-V to paste.
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Bear in mind that not all applications support all formats. Pasting text into Windows notepad, which doesn't support Rich Text Format, will cause highlighed BASIC listings and formatted AppleWorks documents to be converted to plain text. Pasting graphics into Notepad doesn't work at all.
+Bear in mind that not all applications support all formats. Pasting text into Windows notepad, which doesn't support Rich Text Format, will cause highlighted BASIC listings and formatted AppleWorks documents to be converted to plain text. Pasting graphics into Notepad doesn't work at all.
Click "Done" to close the window.
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Free Space: how much free space is on the disk. For formats like CFFA, which just hold other disk images, this is meaningless.
Writable Format: says whether or not CiderPress is capable of adding and deleting files on disks with this format. Currently this is "yes" for DOS 3.3, ProDOS, and UCSD Pascal.
Damaged: this indicates whether or not CiderPress believes the disk is damaged. If it does, the disk will be marked read-only, and attempts to add or delete files will be blocked.
-Notes: if CiderPress detects damage or other anomalies when scanning the disk, they wll be noted here.
+Notes: if CiderPress detects damage or other anomalies when scanning the disk, they will be noted here.
More information about the different disk formats can be found here.
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Windows XP: