If you have access to 'truncate', ...
Sadly, it appears impossible to add the "
truncate" command to the Terminal on my Mac with MacOS Monterey. My attempted homebrew install of that command failed...
REASON: "it has a removed upstream repository"
(what the heck?!)
Not sure if an "
automatic image fitting/adjustment" feature would even be possible on MacSD, but that is perhaps beyond the scope of this particular thread. What I can say is that it would be a very cool feature if people could just throw any and all ProDOS/Apple II images in a Composite folder and have them JustWork™.
By the way, I want everyone reading this info to understand that I've long been a huge fan of
MacSD, and the current limitation being described here is something that no one else has seemed to have tried before. We're breaking new ground, and there are bound to be some hiccups.
I will be doing more editing of my video footage today, since it's a holiday here in Japan. And then return to testing later.
Again, my goal and motto in all this is "
the shortest path to victory." I appreciate Ron's video very much, but there's a lot of work involved in that method. It's time consuming to setup the images and copy files. So in my test, I basically just dragged downloaded images AS IS to a Composite folder I made on my MacSD's SD card, edited the .ini file accordingly, and tested on my CC Mystic with IIe Card installed. It's super fast and easy, with the one caveat being that only 2 out of 6 images were mountable, and it triggered MacSD's ERR LED to flash 15 times repeatedly. As
@YMK mentioned, this appears to be a problem related to "ending on a partial sector." If that is over your head, don't fret because it's over my head too. Suffice it to say, it's an issue that we need to figure out how to work around.
I will also need to test what happens when I try ProDOS images on BlueSCSI, and then FloppyEMU. But like I said, I am waiting for
@Kay K.M.Mods FlippyFloppy to arrive in order to test the FloppyEMU with my Mystic because it doesn't have an external floppy drive connector.
Again, the goal is to show people who may have only one of those 3 devices how to have some quick fun with an Apple IIe Card. In my case, the IIe Card is installed in a Color Classic MYSTIC (with LC575 motherboard), but the IIe Card also works in the LC-series (and Performa equivalents), stock Color Classic, and Color Classic II. I've got a joystick on the way, so I will be able to test that in conjunction with the Y-cable. Later, I will probably do the DIY build that
Kay Koba describes here. Note that
@eric shared his own
successful build here.
Lastly, if
@Ron's Computer Videos or any of you other Apple II aficionados know
how to switch games when using Total Replay without being forced to reset the IIe in order to switch, please let me know. Pressing ESC and pretty much every single key on the keyboard won't "exit to menu" or otherwise get me to a place where I can end one game and begin another. Sure, at the beginning, I can use arrow keys to move between games BEFORE I START PLAYING, but once I begin a game, it seems I'm locked into it and can't get out to see the other games, unless I restart the IIe, which can't be right. Again, I'm brain dead when it comes to the Apple II series, so perhaps that's my problem. Please advise me if you can.
THANK YOU!