Well, I am still considering my options today...
I have found the source code for Warp6 2.5 posted on the internet which I have downloaded but am yet to get onto an Apple II. I will need to decode it, then unshrinkit it, then get it onto a GS with the proper development environment set up (this will all have to be virtual as I dont have a real II of any sort) - given I've never anything other than BASIC on the Apple II this is a rather daunting task - just to get to the point where I could examine the source code, but probably still not understand it
To aid in my endeavor I have flicked an email off to an old email address I found for Jim Ferr on the off chance that he's still contactable on it, my email gets through the various spam filters on the net and he is at all interested in a crazy fool playing around with some software he wrote almost 15 years ago. The main thing I'm keen to find out is if the "vertical blanking" error is because warp6 does indeed need "vertical blanking" or if its just a mechanism to check if running on an enhanced IIe - the answer to this tells me if I should continue down the path of getting a development environment setup to play in (much more of a retro challenge than I had anticipated and one that realistically I'm probably not going to have much luck with).
I'll wait a few days to see if I get a reply, but in the meantime, I think I might start thinking about getting my Warp6 BBS running an emulator on my PC onto the net - I tried this a few months ago but was unable to get a working cable/tcpser combination - I'll try again tho, after all, my mission was to give a retro challenge to everyone else by getting Warp6 with some old BBS doors online - I would prefer to do this on my LCe, but if I cant get it done, perhaps on an emulator is kinda ok.
I have found the source code for Warp6 2.5 posted on the internet which I have downloaded but am yet to get onto an Apple II. I will need to decode it, then unshrinkit it, then get it onto a GS with the proper development environment set up (this will all have to be virtual as I dont have a real II of any sort) - given I've never anything other than BASIC on the Apple II this is a rather daunting task - just to get to the point where I could examine the source code, but probably still not understand it
To aid in my endeavor I have flicked an email off to an old email address I found for Jim Ferr on the off chance that he's still contactable on it, my email gets through the various spam filters on the net and he is at all interested in a crazy fool playing around with some software he wrote almost 15 years ago. The main thing I'm keen to find out is if the "vertical blanking" error is because warp6 does indeed need "vertical blanking" or if its just a mechanism to check if running on an enhanced IIe - the answer to this tells me if I should continue down the path of getting a development environment setup to play in (much more of a retro challenge than I had anticipated and one that realistically I'm probably not going to have much luck with).
I'll wait a few days to see if I get a reply, but in the meantime, I think I might start thinking about getting my Warp6 BBS running an emulator on my PC onto the net - I tried this a few months ago but was unable to get a working cable/tcpser combination - I'll try again tho, after all, my mission was to give a retro challenge to everyone else by getting Warp6 with some old BBS doors online - I would prefer to do this on my LCe, but if I cant get it done, perhaps on an emulator is kinda ok.