esxDOS BBS — esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:30:40 +0000

[30/03/2021] Commands: Added .te command (nagydani)
[30/03/2021] Commands: Updated .drives and .rm (Dr. Slump)
[04/04/2021] Tape Emulator: Fixed a critical bug when attaching .tap files that would cause all sorts of instability (lordcoxis+UB880D)
[04/04/2021] Kernel: Saved HL, IX and IY registers before RTC.SYS call (UB880D)
[04/04/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug affecting (at least) "ZX-Format" diskmag (lordcoxis + reported by Nihirash)
[11/04/2021] BASIC: Fixed X_PTR overwrite on outside syscall entry (lordcoxis + reported by UB880D and SCjoe)
[17/04/2021] Commands: Added .gsc command (Nihirash)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:45:32 +0000

[25/03/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug that afected SCL images with more than 16 files (lordcoxis)
[25/03/2021] auto-LOAD: Set default colours to black paper + white ink, configurable in ESXDOS.CFG (lordcoxis)
[25/03/2021] BASIC: Fixed 2 bugs related to (patched) 128K ROM support, it should now be (almost) fully usable (lordcoxis)
[25/03/2021] NMI: Visual improvements (UB880D)
[25/03/2021] Commands: Added .tar and updated .launcher (UB880D)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 23:43:26 +0000

[20/03/2021] NMI: Added HiResColour modes reset on NMI entry and restore on exit (lordcoxis)
[20/03/2021] Z80DMA: Added "DMA_IO" and "DMA_RAM" config parameters to ESXDOS.CFG to set DMA timings (lordcoxis + requested by LMN128)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (dakidski) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:26:03 +0000

SCL! You guys are the BEST!

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:16:17 +0000

This update is for TR-DOS fans:

[18/03/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug affecting (at least) "Star Heritage" game (lordcoxis + reported by Alcoholics Anonymous)
[18/03/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug affecting (at least) "Tiratok" demo (lordcoxis + reported by Nihirash)
[19/03/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug affecting (at least) "TASM 4.12" assembler (lordcoxis + reported by Nihirash)
[19/03/2021] TR-DOS: Fixed a bug affecting (at least) "Spectrofon" diskmag (lordcoxis + reported by Nihirash)
[19/03/2021] TR-DOS: Added missing MOVE and FORMAT commands (lordcoxis)
[19/03/2021] NMI: Added support for loading SCL files from the browser (UB880D)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:16:10 +0000

Luzie wrote:

If not already done, please add missing TRDBOOT.BIN from SYS folder
which is included in 0.8.7 but not in 0.8.8 as can be read on: http://board.esxdos.org/viewtopic.php?id=1018

Thanks for reminding me:

[18/03/2021] TR-DOS: Updated TR-DOS Navigator to V0.75.9b (lordcoxis)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (Luzie) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:14:16 +0000

If not already done, please add missing TRDBOOT.BIN from SYS folder
which is included in 0.8.7 but not in 0.8.8 as can be read on: http://board.esxdos.org/viewtopic.php?id=1018

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:25:50 +0000

[18/03/2021] vDisk: Added support for SCL (TR-DOS) disk images (lordcoxis)

Re: esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (SCjoe) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:46:50 +0000

Nice. Thanks.

The correction of an auto-LOAD issue allow us to use:

- last version of the .LAUNCHER by ub880d
which now works not only with TAPs, but also with BASIC files

- .BASLOAD (aka .L) by me
time-saving typing of short commands to run basic loaders
.L name
instead of
LOAD*"name.BAS"

esxDOS v0.8.9 Changelog

null@example.com (lordcoxis) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:56:57 +0000

Here's the changelog for the forthcoming v0.8.9 bugfix release. This topic will be updated whenever a change is logged.

[11/11/2020] SD/MMC Driver: Fixed critical bug when extending directories (lordcoxis + reported by SCjoe)
[09/01/2021] auto-LOAD: Copying arguments was using wrong syscall (lordcoxis + reported by UB880D)
[09/01/2021] FAT Driver: Fixed a *critical* bug which corrupted the root directory when the disk was full (lordcoxis + reported by UB880D)
[07/03/2021] Z80DMA: Fixed a bug in the sector write sequence (lordcoxis + reported by LMN128)