[NTLK] NewtonTalk Digest, Vol 86, Issue 25

[Mark Kuberski]

Hi Matthais,

I was able to bring in your changes into Xcode and compile a copy for iOS.  But I wanted to know how I could force the PCMCIA Card (HardCoded) to look for the 20MB Card.  (This could be a different size 10MB, or something else, bigger is better tho).  Here’s what the “files” in Files tab look like when I connect my iOS device.

iOSEinstein
	717006.img.            16.8 MB
	717006.rom.            8.4 MB
	flash                        8.4 MB
	PCMCIA01.pccard. 25.2 MB	(The card has 23,479K when I look at the Memory Info in the FLTK Einstein)

Thanks,
Mark

PS, I was going to try and put a “fork” in GitHub, but I was not able to add a branch.  This way others could view the code.  I can start a new Repo, but figured it might be nice to keep an iOS version of Einstein with Paul’s and your great code!

PPS.  I vote for “beerware” or “wineware” for sure!  When COVID is over, would be nice to enjoy many of these together in person!

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> On 2/26/2021 3:58 AM, Mark Kuberski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Matthais,
>> 
>> I wanted to try and incorporate the PCMCIA data cards changes you put in FLTK into iOS Xcode.  What files did you change?  I could copy those into the Xcode I have that runs and creates an Einstein iOS App.  Or will this not work?  Even a description of what changes you made, the pseudo code would be helpful.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> the core changes are in Emulator/PCMCIA/TLinearCard.cpp . These changes 
> implement the actual card emulation. Writing the contents of the card 
> back to a file on the device is only done when Einstein quits. This is 
> bad for iOS since apps never externally quit. I will have to implement 
> some timer that writes actual changes every few seconds or so.
> 
> There is also a lot of code that manages creation of cards, and the user 
> interface to insert cards, mostly in app/TFLSettings*.cpp . There is new 
> code to insert and eject card in Emulator/Platform/TPlatformManager.cpp
> 
> You can look at what exactly changed here:
> 
> https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein/commits/matt2020 <https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein/commits/matt2020>
> 
> 
> I also did a few tiny changed in the Network emulation that should 
> probably be backported.