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I've successfully built LOS from source!
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on June 16, 2025, 04:38:00 pm ---I think you could get away with distributing xdelta or diff patches...
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Hmm, that's a good idea. I'll definitely look into it!
--- Quote from: sigma7 on June 16, 2025, 04:38:45 pm ---Wow, that's most excellent news! Congrats and what a fantastic contribution!
Perhaps Al Kossow has some suggestions for a good way to post updated code within the terms of the license agreement...
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Thanks James! And that's another good idea; maybe Al can comment here if he has any ideas.
--- Quote from: stepleton on June 16, 2025, 05:00:02 pm ---Congratulations! You know I'll watch that talk the minute it goes up!
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--- Quote from: fri0701 on June 16, 2025, 06:24:59 pm ---This is amazing! I dove into the code recently to work towards the same goal, and learned a lot in the process. I can imagine how much work it took!
I'm very curious to see your presentation when it comes to YouTube, and hopefully you can find a license-appropriate way to share your work so we can all check it out. :)
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Thank you both!
@fri0701 I saw your thread a month ago about the awesome utility you wrote to get source files into LOS disk images, and I think that should help with the problem of not being able to provide a ready-made disk image to a certain extent too. I transferred all the files one by one over serial at 1200 baud, which takes forever and isn't practical, but a utility that can do it all in seconds is a much more convenient solution.
stepleton:
--- Quote from: AlexTheCat123 on June 16, 2025, 09:22:13 pm ---I transferred all the files one by one over serial at 1200 baud, which takes forever and isn't practical
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Does this involve transferring every file separately? As in, within the Workshop transfer application, you say "Save to file" or whatever it is, type out the name of the file, push the file data from the other end of the link, then tell the Workshop application that the file is done? If so, that's an incredibly repetitive process for hundreds of files!
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: stepleton on June 17, 2025, 04:11:54 am ---Does this involve transferring every file separately? As in, within the Workshop transfer application, you say "Save to file" or whatever it is, type out the name of the file, push the file data from the other end of the link, then tell the Workshop application that the file is done? If so, that's an incredibly repetitive process for hundreds of files!
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Yes, that's exactly how I had to do it. I really should've written a program to pack all the files, transfer them as one, and then unpack them on the Lisa end or something, but for some reason I thought that this would be quicker. It was NOT fun in the slightest!
bmwcyclist:
Nice! Congratulations!
D.Finni:
--- Quote from: AlexTheCat123 on June 17, 2025, 07:53:04 am ---
--- Quote from: stepleton on June 17, 2025, 04:11:54 am ---Does this involve transferring every file separately? As in, within the Workshop transfer application, you say "Save to file" or whatever it is, type out the name of the file, push the file data from the other end of the link, then tell the Workshop application that the file is done? If so, that's an incredibly repetitive process for hundreds of files!
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Yes, that's exactly how I had to do it. I really should've written a program to pack all the files, transfer them as one, and then unpack them on the Lisa end or something, but for some reason I thought that this would be quicker. It was NOT fun in the slightest!
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So you have paid the real cost of this "free" source release: your time. 8)
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