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RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 16.04.2020, 17:13

> Hi ECM,
>
> Can you give us some news about RX-DOS please ?
> Hope to be able to test some new binaries soon.

You can look at all the progress I've made on RxDOS in the last 18 months, since the 7.24 release, at https://hg.ulukai.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/shortlog/4e74dca146e1 and https://hg.ulukai.org/ecm/ldos/shortlog/ede05223b42e (I now upload everything I'm doing as soon as I've done it.) Most of what's there is just updates to the subrepos and mak scripts. Most notably the support for "New kernel compression methods".

Two changes related to the kernel but not in any of its (sub)repos are: First, the "Building the debugger" section of the lDebug manual, which largely applies to building the RxDOS kernel too. (And I still recommend people interested in testing RxDOS should manage to build it on their own.) The second is the "Assembly Comments Explained: Guide for Advanced Learning and Style", which describes the style and meaning of my sources.

There's a few changes in the ldos subrepo:

init: add EXE mode entrypoint and COMLOADER (only reports success) 2018-10-10 and the related RxDOS change allow building with instsect as an embedded COMLOADER program 2018-10-11

memory: implement AllocateMCBCompatible, UMA then LMA as two areas 2018-10-18

init2_relocate_end: relocate SFTs to UMA or LMA 2018-10-25

relocate CDS and LFNCDS 2018-11-27

And a few bug fixes in the RxDOS repo:

DEV: bugfix, address devDefaultLength table with cs 2018-10-11

biocode: bugfix, allow _NonLBARead if BPB uninitialised 2018-10-11

DEV: honour error returned by initDriveParameters 2018-10-11

INI: bugfix, use init2-local CopyStringArgs (stack parameters!) 2018-10-11

INI: fix segmentation of _RxDOSini_CommandShell 2018-10-12

INI: preserve bx around int 29h call 2018-10-18

SFT: rename sftinfo_Eof to sftinfo_NotEof and correctly use it 2020-02-02, which links to https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/issues/20 which has another bug yet to be fixed (by returning valid default data from the internationalisation call)

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Complete thread:

• RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 08.10.2018, 19:09 (Announce)
  • RxDOS 7.24 release - Guti, 09.10.2018, 10:14
  • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 09.10.2018, 12:54
    • RxDOS 7.24 release - Doug, 11.10.2018, 09:32
      • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 11:53
        • RxDOS 7.24 release - roytam, 11.10.2018, 15:37
          • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 18:16
            • RxDOS 7.24 release - tom, 12.10.2018, 13:44
              • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:01
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:34
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:53
                  • RxDOS 7.24 release - nico7550, 15.04.2020, 23:37
                    • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 16.04.2020, 17:13
                      • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 02.05.2020, 13:15
                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 15:11
                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 15:59
                            • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 16:18
                              • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 16:37
                                • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 16:46
                                  • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 16:54
                              • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 30.01.2021, 13:53
                                • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 30.01.2021, 14:37
                                  • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 12:55
                                    • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 31.01.2021, 13:10
                                      • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 16:55
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - rr, 31.01.2021, 17:47
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - Japheth, 31.01.2021, 18:21
                                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 23:58
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - rr, 03.02.2021, 21:06
                                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - Japheth, 04.02.2021, 09:54
                            • RxDOS building - RXD_Build.txt - ecm, 03.05.2020, 17:11
                            • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 17:29
                              • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 18:29
                                • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 18:50
                                  • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:21
                                    • Building boot32fd.bin - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:31
                                • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:00
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - roytam, 12.10.2018, 15:27
        • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 18:15