Downloading from laptops

[Mike Mahar]

I now have one of my laptops working and I'll try getting the others to work tomorrow.

I noticed that programs that were smaller than 0x8000 would download correctly while larger ones would not.

I also noticed that the IFI loader that ran on the desktop machines would print out that they were Erasing banks 1-8 but the laptop machines did not. The printed out a message that said it was erasing memory but nothing about bank numbers.

I found in the ifiloader directory in Program Files an INI file. This file has a variable called debug_level that was set to 0. I thought that I might get some insight if I raised this level so I edited the INI file to set the debug_level to 1

As soon as I did this, the loader started printing out the messages about erasing banks 1-8 and now larger executables download successfully. I was curious if this variable was set on my desktop machines. It is not set.

I went back to the laptop and changed the INI file back to its original state. The IFIloader still works!. I appears that changing the INI file somehow fixed the problem but changing it back does not cause the problem to reappear. IFIloader might write something into the registry but I couldn't find anything.

As I said, I'll try doing the same trick to the other laptops and see if that magically fixes things.