Greetings,
I have updated the SerialDisk documentation tonight. I created a fairly
descriptive how-to guide on how to set up a new SerialDisk system. For the
inexperienced with OS/8, it provides some information on running programs
like EDIT, PAL8, and BUILD. For the OS/8 gurus, it shows some basic syntax
of the SerialDisk server and related utilities. There should be a little
something for everyone in there.
If someone has an Omnibus machine and an aux TTY card and wants to try it
out, I'd be curious to see how accurate my documentation really is.
A big thanks to David Gesswein for trying out my early attempts at the
server, Vince Slyngstad for creating a handler that will work well for the
earlier -8s, and Philipp Hachtmann for making some needed modifications to
my coding style. :) The changes will be getting pushed in as soon as I have
time to patch them in and test them.
Eventually, I'll have simh working with the server by means of telnet, but
this is to come as I have more time.
https://github.com/drovak/os8diskserver
Kyle
P.S. I forgot if I mentioned: I found out that it wasn't my server that was
acting up with BASIC halting at 10206; it was the disk image I was using.
It works fine on the current release using diagpack2.rk05. I've not had a
single bug with the handler/server that can't be explained by user error
since the latest changes. :)