• GSBug

    From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 18 10:10:02 2022
    Forgive my ignorance:

    I guess you can't have debug.init.B21 and ORCADebugger both installed in the System.Setup folder?

    Does the app GSBug coexist peacefully with the init version?

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  • From Stephen Heumann@21:1/5 to Tom Thumb on Tue Oct 18 15:35:04 2022
    On 2022-10-18 17:10:02 +0000, Tom Thumb said:

    I guess you can't have debug.init.B21 and ORCADebugger both installed
    in the System.Setup folder?

    You should be able to have the GSBug and ORCA/Debugger inits both
    installed. They essentially do different things, since GSBug is an assembly-level debugger and ORCA/Debugger is a source-level debugger
    for use with the compiled ORCA languages (ORCA/C, ORCA/Pascal,
    ORCA/Modula-2).

    Also, note that debug.init.B21 isn't quite the latest version. It is
    GSBug 1.6b21, but there is an GSBug 1.6 final, available here:

    https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/apple.cabi.net/Languages.Programming/GSBUG16.SHK

    --
    Stephen Heumann

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 18 22:00:44 2022
    On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1:35:07 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    Also, note that debug.init.B21 isn't quite the latest version. It is
    GSBug 1.6b21, but there is an GSBug 1.6 final, available here:

    Do you know if the full manual got released into the public domain? The tutorial in the archive says the 140-page manual was available from Resource Central, and I don't know if the rights were transferred. I haven't spotted it online.

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  • From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to fadden on Wed Oct 19 05:27:16 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:00:45 AM UTC-4, fadden wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1:35:07 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    Also, note that debug.init.B21 isn't quite the latest version. It is
    GSBug 1.6b21, but there is an GSBug 1.6 final, available here:
    Do you know if the full manual got released into the public domain? The tutorial in the archive says the 140-page manual was available from Resource Central, and I don't know if the rights were transferred. I haven't spotted it online.

    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935

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  • From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Oct 19 05:26:26 2022
    On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 4:35:07 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On 2022-10-18 17:10:02 +0000, Tom Thumb said:

    I guess you can't have debug.init.B21 and ORCADebugger both installed
    in the System.Setup folder?
    You should be able to have the GSBug and ORCA/Debugger inits both
    installed. They essentially do different things, since GSBug is an assembly-level debugger and ORCA/Debugger is a source-level debugger
    for use with the compiled ORCA languages (ORCA/C, ORCA/Pascal, ORCA/Modula-2).

    Also, note that debug.init.B21 isn't quite the latest version. It is
    GSBug 1.6b21, but there is an GSBug 1.6 final, available here:

    https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/apple.cabi.net/Languages.Programming/GSBUG16.SHK

    --
    Stephen Heumann


    I had a problem with both inits installed, at least with Bernie II The Rescue. I just followed suit on my IIgs and installed only debug.init.B21.

    I use Bernie when not at home; it does well but it eats Open-Apple Control Shift Escape as a force quit instead of entering GSBug.

    I will check out the link GSBug 1.6 final, thank you.

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Oct 19 07:54:25 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935

    Did the download work for you? MacGUI likes to throw errors or silently ignore requests, and then refuse to retry because I've downloaded in the past 3 minutes. I'm never sure if it's just me, the site in general, or something specific about the file I'
    ve requested.

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  • From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to fadden on Wed Oct 19 10:30:27 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 10:54:26 AM UTC-4, fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935
    Did the download work for you? MacGUI likes to throw errors or silently ignore requests, and then refuse to retry because I've downloaded in the past 3 minutes. I'm never sure if it's just me, the site in general, or something specific about the file I'
    ve requested.

    It's my first experience with MacGUI; my download went okay; it's a large file, 282.6 MB that expands to a 438.1 iso file.

    It has a bunch of stuff in it; I'm not sure if it should all be there or not, but I don't see the harm.

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to fadden on Wed Oct 19 20:14:34 2022
    fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7,
    [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id'935

    Did the download work for you? MacGUI likes to throw errors or silently ignore requests, and then refuse to retry because I've downloaded in the
    past 3 minutes. I'm never sure if it's just me, the site in general, or something specific about the file I've requested.


    Do you use the queue thing to get multiple files in one Zip archive, or do
    you get these errors when you download files individually?

    If I can find the cause, I'll fix the problem.

    --
    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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  • From Andrew Roughan@21:1/5 to Tom Thumb on Thu Oct 20 12:04:03 2022
    Tom Thumb <[email protected]> wrote:

    I use Bernie when not at home; it does well but it eats Open-Apple
    Control Shift Escape as a force quit instead of entering GSBug.


    There is a Sheppyware utility to patch that combination to something else
    that works in Bernie.

    http://www.sheppyware.net/apple-ii-software/gsbug-16-patch-for-bernie.html

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to D Finnigan on Thu Oct 20 07:52:20 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:14:37 PM UTC-7, D Finnigan wrote:
    Did the download work for you? MacGUI likes to throw errors or silently ignore requests, and then refuse to retry because I've downloaded in the past 3 minutes. I'm never sure if it's just me, the site in general, or something specific about the file I've requested.

    Do you use the queue thing to get multiple files in one Zip archive, or do you get these errors when you download files individually?

    Tried both, neither worked. I tried once before a few months back, with this or another large one, and had the same issue. I've downloaded smaller files successfully. I tested ABM (https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=3797) just now and was able to
    download the file and open it with CiderPress.

    I tried the big one just now with the queue and got:

    This site can’t be reached
    The webpage at https://macgui.com/downloads/?mode=queue&do=fetch might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
    ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE

    When I look at the queue again, it's empty.

    I'm not sure how to do this with wget, since you need to be logged in to start the download. (I tried it anyway, using the URL on the "download" button, and got a 403:Forbidden.)

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  • From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to Andrew Roughan on Thu Oct 20 15:43:45 2022
    On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 8:04:05 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roughan wrote:
    Tom Thumb <[email protected]> wrote:

    I use Bernie when not at home; it does well but it eats Open-Apple
    Control Shift Escape as a force quit instead of entering GSBug.


    There is a Sheppyware utility to patch that combination to something else that works in Bernie.

    http://www.sheppyware.net/apple-ii-software/gsbug-16-patch-for-bernie.html

    Hey, thanks. I went and got that and installed it. Thing is I've been doing 8-bit stuff with Merlin and GSBug won't load those bin files. I have to put a break in the code and run it from basic and it breaks to GSBug okay. I'm just starting to delve
    into it and I can step through the code and exit okay but next time I run BASIC.System it crashes with a $0201 error, can't allocate memory I think, so I can go through one cycle but have to reboot to go through another.

    I don't suppose you've come across this and have a workaround/fix?

    On another note I'm having a bit of trouble with ORCA/M. I f I try to run some simple assembly code I'm getting something like: 16:languages language prodos does not exist or sometime language text does not exist. Haven't had a chance to work at it much
    yet.

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  • From Tom Thumb@21:1/5 to Tom Thumb on Thu Oct 20 17:33:09 2022
    On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 6:43:47 PM UTC-4, Tom Thumb wrote:
    On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 8:04:05 AM UTC-4, Andrew Roughan wrote:
    Tom Thumb <[email protected]> wrote:

    On another note I'm having a bit of trouble with ORCA/M. I f I try to run some simple assembly code I'm getting something like: 16:languages language prodos does not exist or sometime language text does not exist. Haven't had a chance to work at it
    much yet.

    Oh, it's on page 9, SUBTYPE , "change file.asm asm65816"

    Thought that was default somewhere and was set, huh

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to fadden on Sun Nov 13 16:43:38 2022
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:54:26 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935
    Did the download work for you? [...]

    Does anyone know if this APDA CD-ROM is available anywhere else? I never did get MacGUI to work for this particular file. (Tried Firefox on Linux just now.)

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  • From Jerry Penner@21:1/5 to fadden on Sun Nov 13 21:35:20 2022
    fadden <[email protected]> writes:

    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:54:26 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935
    Did the download work for you? [...]

    Does anyone know if this APDA CD-ROM is available anywhere else? I never did get MacGUI
    to work for this particular file. (Tried Firefox on Linux just now.)

    Firefox 106.0.5 on Linux here and can download it. It did warn me about "dangerous" content, but I allowed it and it proceeded to download.
    This also worked when I tried it at the beginning of this discussion
    thread. Not sure what to suggest as to why it doesn't work for you.


    --
    Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to fadden on Mon Nov 14 16:43:24 2022
    fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:54:26 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7,
    [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935
    Did the download work for you? [...]

    Does anyone know if this APDA CD-ROM is available anywhere else? I never
    did get MacGUI to work for this particular file. (Tried Firefox on Linux just now.)


    It's probably your browser refusing to download from an HTTP site.

    --
    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Jerry Penner on Mon Nov 14 16:42:27 2022
    Jerry Penner wrote:
    fadden <[email protected]> writes:

    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:54:26 AM UTC-7, fadden wrote:
    On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:27:17 AM UTC-7,
    [email protected] wrote:
    I found the documentation at:

    https://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=27935
    Did the download work for you? [...]

    Does anyone know if this APDA CD-ROM is available anywhere else? I never
    did get MacGUI
    to work for this particular file. (Tried Firefox on Linux just now.)

    Firefox 106.0.5 on Linux here and can download it. It did warn me about "dangerous" content, but I allowed it and it proceeded to download.
    This also worked when I tried it at the beginning of this discussion
    thread. Not sure what to suggest as to why it doesn't work for you.


    Oh, you just reminded me what the problem is. Mac GUI still serves
    downloaded files larger than about 5 MB from an HTTP server. Some web
    browsers now will silently abort the download, while others will give an
    error message.

    I'll bet that's been causing people trouble for the last few years.

    Maybe I should switch to using FTP instead to serve files. ;-)

    --
    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to D Finnigan on Mon Nov 14 11:56:22 2022
    On Monday, November 14, 2022 at 8:43:27 AM UTC-8, D Finnigan wrote:
    It's probably your browser refusing to download from an HTTP site.

    Firefox on Linux, and Chrome on Linux on Win10, failed silently.

    Internet Explorer 11 on Win7 in a virtual machine worked.

    Thanks!

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to fadden on Tue Nov 15 16:30:36 2022
    fadden wrote:
    On Monday, November 14, 2022 at 8:43:27 AM UTC-8, D Finnigan wrote:
    It's probably your browser refusing to download from an HTTP site.

    Firefox on Linux, and Chrome on Linux on Win10, failed silently.

    Internet Explorer 11 on Win7 in a virtual machine worked.

    Thanks!


    And I'll switch over to serving downloads from an HTTPS site. You're not the first person who has mentioned this problem to me in the past year, so I
    have no excuse now.

    (Probably no one cares, but the reason why the main Mac GUI site is HTTPS
    but downloads are served over HTTP is that for most of the history of the
    site, something like 15 years, downloads were served from a different web server located in a different data center from the main web site. Only in
    the past 3 years have these two servers been consolidated into one data
    center, and I've just never upgraded to HTTPS for the downloads)

    --
    ]DF$
    The New Apple II User's Guide:
    https://macgui.com/newa2guide/

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  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to D Finnigan on Thu Nov 24 18:39:56 2022
    D Finnigan wrote:
    fadden wrote:
    On Monday, November 14, 2022 at 8:43:27 AM UTC-8, D Finnigan wrote:
    It's probably your browser refusing to download from an HTTP site.

    Firefox on Linux, and Chrome on Linux on Win10, failed silently.

    Internet Explorer 11 on Win7 in a virtual machine worked.

    Thanks!


    And I'll switch over to serving downloads from an HTTPS site.

    Sic scripsi, sic feci.

    Mac GUI Vault downloads are now served from an HTTPs site.

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