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  • Re: CiderPress II Update

    From fadden@thefadden@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Nov 23 16:21:17 2023
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    CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be/P2kss3aOEvs .

    The drag & drop and copy & paste has been something I've wanted to do for a while. Microsoft didn't make it easy, but I think it came out pretty well.

    The file conversions are equivalent or superior to those in the original CiderPress. One new addition is a hi-res font renderer. It takes a 768- or 1024-byte font file for the Apple II or Apple /// and generates a character grid bitmap.

    I also added support for Pascal ProFile Manager, which is the thing that uses storage type 4 on a ProDOS disk. I found a sample that Willi Kusche uploaded a while back (
    https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/programming/pascal/PDDISK29.ZIP ) and used that as a test case.

    Documentation for the various "vintage" file formats can be found on https://ciderpress2.com/doc-index.html .
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  • From Bill Chatfield@billchatfield1@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sat Dec 2 07:52:28 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, fadden wrote:
    CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be
    Here's a picture of it running in Wine on Fedora Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osMqS_mjZ84OEF-BBTq5GAFO0vTSErD2/view?usp=sharing
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  • From fadden@thefadden@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sat Dec 2 08:15:28 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:52:30 AM UTC-8, Bill Chatfield wrote:
    On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, fadden wrote:
    CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be
    Here's a picture of it running in Wine on Fedora Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osMqS_mjZ84OEF-BBTq5GAFO0vTSErD2/view?usp=sharing
    I didn't think Wine could handle .NET binaries. This is excellent! Did you need to do anything special to get it working?
    This suggests it might also be possible to run 6502bench on Mac/Linux, though that's using the older ".NET Framework" rather than the newer ".NET Core".
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  • From Bill Chatfield@billchatfield1@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sat Dec 2 15:35:23 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 11:15:30 AM UTC-5, fadden wrote:
    On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:52:30 AM UTC-8, Bill Chatfield wrote:
    On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 7:21:20 PM UTC-5, fadden wrote:
    CiderPress II v0.4 is now available. The main changes were the introduction of drag & drop and development of a full set of file converters. A four-minute demo of the GUI is available at https://youtu.be
    Here's a picture of it running in Wine on Fedora Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osMqS_mjZ84OEF-BBTq5GAFO0vTSErD2/view?usp=sharing
    I didn't think Wine could handle .NET binaries. This is excellent! Did you need to do anything special to get it working?

    This suggests it might also be possible to run 6502bench on Mac/Linux, though that's using the older ".NET Framework" rather than the newer ".NET Core".
    I didn't do anything special. I think the self contained package was helpful. One of the problems with Wine is getting all the Windows components installed correctly that you need to run a program. I used the 32-bit version also. I have Wine 8.19. Fedora usually includes the latest version.
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  • From fadden@fadden@fadden.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sat Dec 16 15:31:59 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    CiderPress II v1.0.0-alpha1 is now available.

    I've written documentation and tied up various loose ends, and am
    declaring it to be feature-complete. Now it just needs somebody other
    than me to give it some exercise. :-)

    https://ciderpress2.com/

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  • From fadden@thefadden@gmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Dec 28 10:27:47 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    CiderPress II v1.0 is now available.

    https://ciderpress2.com/
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  • From Oliver Schmidt@ol.sc@web.de to comp.sys.apple2 on Fri Dec 29 10:11:16 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    CiderPress II v1.0 is now available.

    1. Congrats!

    2. Thanks :-)

    Oliver

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