ADFFS 2.71 beta

[!FOZ!]

Hi Jon,

I saw you asking for testing support over in stardot. I recently got back into retro and happy to support where I can. I’ve got a Pi400 and A3000 with RISC OS 3.11. I have been using your tool to image with pretty good success - a few isssues relating to drop downs being blank and some crashes during compression (after a few successful images). I did update my my machine to Uniboot and that has fixed the drop down issue - I saw a post elsewhere about this being a c module issue.

I have a software background (mainly BBC 6502 in respect to the retro scene) and of course like most getting back into the scene getting pulled down the rabbit hole more and more! Both software and more recently hardware side of things too. I don’t have PM’s enabled, but let me know if you want some help.

Meanwhile - thanks for this amazing tool. Side note, I have a boxed copy of Ballerena my very first game! And thought all hope was lost when I tried to run it it corrupted the CMOS - after imaging it and running such old games under your tool - things are much safer!

Thanks again!

[JonAbbott]

If you're imaging floppies, please try the ADFFS 2.80 public beta as I spent some time reducing the memory footprint and removing the reliance on SparkFS. The crash during compression is where ZLib couldn't allocate working memory - which annoying isn't something I can prevent as you can't ask it to pre-allocate space before the imaging process starts. If I could figure out how much it needs, I could at least check free space before starting the imaging and warn its likely to fail.

The blank menus is a feature of version of WindowManager that shipped with RO3. You'll need a !Boot structure on your HD and then replace !Boot.Resources.!System.310.Modules.Wimp with the latest from System resources on the ROOL download page. I wouldn't suggest doing a full !System update from that ZIP as it might break some software.

[!FOZ!]

Jon, all makes sense, will do an update this weekend. Thank you!