Winbootsmate Fixed -
And somewhere, on a dusty road by a river, the old woman walked and left her own mark—another pair of boots, faded and quiet now, but with a single charm still on their lace. She did not need to apologize for losing them. She had found in Bramblebridge a proof that things made to accompany can outlive their makers by becoming companions to many. The world, she thought, was stitched together by small acts: a charm tied, a path diverted, a hand taken.
Not all choices were simple. When a developer came with promises of paved roads and new shops, the boots tapped twice, then turned their toes toward the green common where children flew kites. The developer laughed and left his plans in a briefcase that never opened again. When a storm threatened to flood the lower lanes, the boots wanted the town to act—nudge after nudge until the farmers dug channels and the smiths forged temporary gates. The town saved their houses, and the baker’s oven stayed warm. winbootsmate
Word spread beyond Bramblebridge. Curious travelers arrived with questions heavier than puddle-splashes or bakery choices. A woman asked whether to return to a son she’d left behind; a sailor wanted to know if he should sign on for one more voyage; a mayor asked whether to fund a new bridge. The boots hummed, tapped, and nudged, and the town slowly learned to listen carefully to the simple guidance: walk, pause, and choose. And somewhere, on a dusty road by a
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Great article thanks, if you fancy doing one that tells me how to turn ADF files into WHDLoad files where I can specify the kickstart version it would be awesome 🙂 🙂
I have some ADF files of some stuff I programmed years back and would love to get them to run on a real Amiga.
Creating WHDLoad files is definitely on my hit-list to check out. I’m just working on setting up the Amiga environment to do it. When I make some progress I’ll definitely do up an article about it. 🙂
Tried setting up Amiga Explorer without success. Everything checks out fine until I run setup. The Amiga takes the command “Type SER: to RAM:Setup”, setup seems to transfer, I hit Ctrl+C but when I hit “OK” on the PC side, I don’t see the “**BREAK” message. Quadruple checked my cable. Any suggestions?
Strange. Try opening up a new Shell and continue with step 11. Perhaps the setup has copied successfully and the original Shell is just not recognizing the copy has completed.
I tried that as well. I also checked RAMDisk to see if the file was there and it was not. I wonder if it has to do with how I jumpered the connectors. On the connections that lead from one to two contacts, I used a small bit of wire to bridge the two connectors. Should I have split the wire braids in half and run each half to the two connectors? Continuity checks out fine on those connections, 1&6 on DB9 to 20 on DB25 and 4 on DB9 to 6&8 on DB25. Would you know of an off the shelf cable that works with AE? If I can test it with a known working cable then I can move on to troubleshooting the serial port itself. Thanks for the reply Jason!
Using a small bit of wire is what I did on my cable too, so what you’ve described sounds like it should be okay.
From what it says on Cloanto’s web page for Amiga Explorer about the cable is an off the shelf cable should work if it supports full handshaking.
Would you be able to take a picture of the cable you made showing both ends? And send it to jason(at)everythingamiga.com?
I’m out of town at until the end of the week for work but when I get back I’ll do a bit of testing to see if I can offer some other ideas to confirm the cable is working okay. But if you can send me a picture or two that will at least get me started.
We’ll figure it out! 🙂
Alright Jason, I reworked the cable entirely and same issue. Until… I tried holding the Ctrl+C combo for ten seconds! **BREAK! Well, at least I was able to make the new cable more substantial and pretty. Thanks for the help!
That’s wonderful that it worked for you! Strange about having to hold down Ctrl+C. I’m glad you got it sorted.