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Took the last dose of Paxlovid this morning. I suppose that means I'm "cured."

An encouraging sign was my tooth didn't hurt as much. At first. I was able to eat a bagel and egg sandwich for breakfast. No real pain at first, some discomfort. By the end, it was pretty painful, but it wasn't in the "goes to 11" range. 9 to 10, maybe. It's calmed down since then. Some new pain in the lower jaw, right side, but not severe. Believe this may be the last holdout of the virus.

Too bad I'm out of Paxlovid. Hopefully my immune system can mop up from here.

Nevertheless, it was very encouraging. I thought I was looking at another root canal. Maybe I still am, but... maybe not.

Anyway, minor congestion/gunk here and there. Unsure how I would have fared minus the anti-viral.

In other news, spent most of yesterday and earlier this morning partying like it's 1985.

I have a Floppy Emu from Big Mess O'Wires for the //c. The main //c I use is a model 4100, so it can boot 32MB ProDOS images, essentially giving me a hard drive. The "other" //c (with the broken keycaps) is a 4000, so it can't use volumes larger than 143K. A ROM swap would remedy that, but I'm not planning to do that at this point. Maybe later when I get the ROM+cx installed in main //c. That'll give me a 32K ROM I can install in the 4000.

The next challenge is creating 32MB HD images to place on the micro-SD card for the Emu.

I use Virtual II on my Macs, and it has an "OmniDisk," a fictional peripheral that can read ProDOS volumes larger than the 143K of a 5.25" floppy. You can "create" new disks in the app, so I did, and proceeded to copy a bunch of programs and utilities onto it, creating subdirectories and so on. That way I could play around on the //c without having to fuss with the Emu to change floppies.

Well, after a lot of work, I went to go boot my //c from my "OmniDisk" .2MG 32MB disk image. Long story short, couldn't get it to work.

I'm still uncertain exactly why it's working now, but I essentially started from scratch. The key thing, I think, was formatting the new OmniDisk in ProDOS. You can mount a folder from MacOS as a drive using the OmniDisk, and I suspect I may have just been creating a folder, which is meaningless to the Emu and the real //c.

Anyway, that's "Archimedes Spiral," which takes a long time to plot in BASIC on real hardware. I didn't time it because I decided to just go make breakfast.

More playing around to do now. Hopefully I'm past this Covid thing, though I'm not certain.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 10:09 Sunday, 29 September 2024