Sparkplug 2.29 released

David Pilling has kindly created a Beagleboard save version of Sparkplug available from his web site: SparkPlug 2.29

http://www.davidpilling.com/splug229.arc

Self extracting SparkPlug 2.29

http://www.davidpilling.com/splug.bas

Spark 2.29

http://www.davidpilling.com/spk229.zip

Self extracting SparkPlug 2.29

http://www.davidpilling.com/splug.bas

Great news! Both the .arc and .zip seem OK but I’m having a problem with the self-extracting version

Output as follows:

*.
Dir. SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas Option 02 (Run) 
CSD  SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas
Lib. SCSI:"Unset" 
URD  SCSI:"Unset" 
splug/bas    WR/    
*splug/bas
SparkPlug self-extract routine
BASIC -quit "SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.splug/bas" 
Creating directory  SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.!SparkPlug.
Restoring file:     SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.!SparkPlug.!Boot
Uncrunching
Restoring file:     SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.!SparkPlug.!Run
Uncrunching
Restoring file:     SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.!SparkPlug.!Runimage
Unstoring
Bad Header in:archive
Directory:SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.
Bad Header in:archive
Restoring file:     SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.Ð
Bark has abended because:     Can't unpack Ð
*.
Dir. SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas Option 02 (Run) 
CSD  SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas
Lib. SCSI:"Unset" 
URD  SCSI:"Unset" 
!SparkPlug   D/      splug/bas    WR/     Ð            WR/    
*info Ð
Ð            WR/     Data      05:42:06 29-Nov-2010    0  bytes
*count !sparkplug
Directory SCSI::HardDisc4.$.Public.Bundled.SparkPlug.splug/bas.!sparkplug counted, 71 Kbytes
3 files counted, 72994 bytes
*info !sparkplug.*
!Boot        WR/     Obey      05:42:05 29-Nov-2010  369  bytes
!Run         WR/     Obey      05:42:05 29-Nov-2010 1218  bytes
!Runimage    WR/     Absolute  05:42:06 29-Nov-2010   70 Kbytes

Try download it from ftp://a4com.dyndns.org/pub/Beagle

Thanks – will try that tonight!

I made a mess of things when I did the initial upload of SparkPlug 2.29 to my web site. I believe I have now got it right. I’d got two links wrong and my ftp software defaulted to text mode for *.bas files which may explain the corrupt self extract version.

If there are any problems or other bits of my software that won’t work, let me know.

That’s great. Thanks very much for doing this.

Thanks from me, too. I had problems using it on the beagle but they seem to have been resolved with the version.

Hi David. Would you have any objection to our including the latest SparkPlug in our HardDisc4 image on the ROOL site? We could also add a link to your page for an individual download of the app.

...including the latest SparkPlug in our HardDisc4 image…

Could this be the beginnings of a ‘Bundled applications’ directory? That’d be just the ticket for new users!

Steve – please use SparkPlug as you wish. I’d not take much talking in to doing a read only version of SparkFS for you…

Wow. If that’s an offer for an RO SparkFS, then we’d happily accept. :)

I’ve put a read only version of SparkFS for ROOL at:

www.davidpilling.com/sfs142ro.zip

let me know when you’ve retrieved it.

Got it, many thanks. We’ll put it in the disc image.

Much appreciated David! I’ve just purchased SparkFS from your site so when I buy a Beagleboard system I’ll have the full version to run :)

The new HardDisc4 image with a read-only copy of SparkFS included can now be downloaded from the ROOL site.

• 600MHz
• Zipfile size 38MB
• File extraction done on RAM disc
• ARMv7-safe ‘unzip’ in Taskwindow
  • 4.5secs
• SparkFS
  • >1 minute, during which time the WIMP isn’t usable (but no hourglass)
• Not tried with the full version of SparkFS

That’s useful to know.