Is-Dos_News

Greetings, All! WHAT'S NEW IN iS-DOSe - 1997 - 8.1.97: is_dos.sys - Restart #60. Corrected leno: additional printing of empty lines in the panel 20.1.97: antipod.com - isdos "up" upside down" for the most irreconcilable our fighters for Norton-likeness. 22.1.97: is_dos - Disk name in 11 characters 7.2.97: is_dos - System is 9 bytes shorter 25.2.97: is_dos - Fixed: Flag C instead of NZ in $opres if what you are looking for is not there resident (shorter by 10 bytes). 22.4.97: create,format - Disk name in 11 characters 3.5.97: arzt+ - Automatic correction Editing boot.sys for iS-DOS Chic. October 1997 10/21/97: move.com - Transferring directories from all content 10/25/97: abc.com - Corrected: Indication when copying large devices (bo- more than 20,000 blocks on the hard drive) 10/25/97: ide_tune.com - Corrected: But- hard drive cylinder measure 4-digit and Ave. 10.25.97: ide+.blk - Fixed: Error 6: Instead of dumping into a shell with a window "Insert Disk..." dead loop. 10.27.97:image.com - Corrected: Situation- tion: Run from drive A:, file image.img on drive C: (hard drive) is copied to disk H: (electronic disk). November 1997 11.11.97: arzt+ - Device support up to 16MB in size (hard drive) with dynamic ical memory allocation.11/19/97 - Version ide++.blk. Ban on pre- jerking when accessing control leru. More sustainable operation. 11.24.97 - gmen.com/res (menu called up key <9>) Hot keys <7> and 8 for devices and corresponding exactly. 11/27/97: set.com - Fixed: Error 133 when trying to install the 8th device swarm (Should occur on the 9th). 11/29/97: new_cats.com - Selecting a drive at startup and automatic translation to the new disc title format 11/29/97: sv_image.com - Continuous file at the exit if possible 11/30/97: set.com - Corrected: Not removed driver sys_driv.blk (with number channel F8) with 8 installed devices swarms. Ignoring the "Speci" byte al" if there are not enough free devices. 11/30/97: kay.blk and bootsc.com - Support- for a new disc title format with 11-character name (22.1.97) 11/30/97: image.com - Corrected: saved changing the launch environment, as well as editing Up to 8 devices (G and H). . - 1998 - Jan'98: sgf, sgf_9... - Possibility of pro- review of go games recorded in Smart Go Format. February 1998 7.2.98: filecopy - Fixed bug disappeared during MOVE in large directories. (The wrong file was deleted because it was incorrect file service restarts were used would).7.2.98: wet.com - Bug fixed, possible disappeared when editing files with length equal to an integer number of blocks +1 byte with the last character not equal to 3. 11.2.98: tv.com - 5 characters per number lines to read Pelevin "Chapaev and Emptiness." March 1998 20.3.98: kay_1m.rom, kay_1n.rom, edkay1mb - RAM disk drivers for KAY-1024 (with 1MB memory) for Chic and Classic. Electronic disk size up to 3840 and 3904 blocks (960KB and 976KB) co- responsibly. 22.3.98: cmp - Support for files of length more than 255 blocks 26.3.98: edit+.com - Stop fixed macro when loading a file block overlay. Now you can use let's say such a sequence of co- mand macro: #11Al#0A#11m1#11#07b 31.3.98 - Version ide+3.blk. Eliminated for hanging on bad sectors. 31.3.98: bad.com - Fixed: File date file0.bad April 1998 2.4.98: arzt+ - Solution to the bad-file problem catch: read-protected files (bit 2 in the status byte) remain in their places. Supports 8 devices (G and H). 3.4.98 - ch++.res. Option ch+: Bumping to read-protected files communicates about it, rather than blurting out with error 171 like the previous one. By- useful on damaged devices sectors. 4.4.98: LOADING IS-DOS from an IDE hard drive13.4.98: format.com - Corrected: More reliable Chic test. Explosions eliminated. 13.4.98: doctor.com - More reliable test Chic. Sign "DSK" in old and new formats. 23.4.98: kay_1n.rom - Order of memory jars - This corresponds to the TR-DOS RAM disk 27.4.98: move.com - Fixed: Error 80 when launched with parameters 29.4.98: ed1.ovr - Fixed: Explosion when trying to replace past the end of the file Apr'98: sv_trd, uns_trd, trd_ram - copy- formation of images of Trdosov dis- kov on the screw, back and into RAM. 30.4.98: is_dos - 1. Fixed: 1 more error in mltrd (since 1990!). Incorrect the file was read. 2. At the address g_cnf+66 the system places code EI or DI depending on whether interrupts are enabled or not. May 1998 4.5.98: ch+2.com - Accelerated at over 2- him times checking and counting control- ny sums (instead of ch+.res) ch.com and calc.com are also accelerated. In sv_image built-in calculation of the amount. 7.5.98: create - Fixed: maximum device size up to 65528, not up to 65280. 7.5.98: abc, abc+ - Fixed: re-created giving cache after work. 8.5.98: fileshow - Counting procedures free and continuous space and disk map printing are accelerated 6 times. On a device of 65520 blocks: 0.15" instead of 1.08" and 0.31" instead of 1.75" respectively. Total: 0.46" instead of 2.83"9.5.98: ide+3sby.blk - IDE driver win- Chester, automatically translating hard drive in Stand by mode using a timer. Timer from 0 to 21 minutes. Winchester stops rotating before turning to driver. 9.5.98: kay_con.com - Connection program connection of the system to the hard drive. Corrected and "untied" from the driver name. 9.5.98: cd+.com - Accelerated 21 times: 0.4" instead of 8.6" with 2 directories 127 files each. 10.5.98: ide_tune - Setting the timer Stand by (driver ide+3sby.blk) 12.5.98: arzt+ - Individuation procedure has been accelerated ration of the compression process: 2'09" instead 10'57" (5.1 times faster) at 261 file on an electronic disk of size 65528 blocks. 12.5.98: fileshow - 11 characters in name devices 12.5.98: format, doctor - Fixed in- Bad diction. 13.5.98: sv_image - Output file name from the drive name. "overwrite" request. 13.5.98: fileshow, arzt+ - Fixed indication 25.5.98: Picasso - Adaptation for Chic. 25.5.98: edkay1mb.blk - Order of cans pa- memory corresponds to TR-DOS RAM disk 25.5.98: arzt+ - Display corrected real estate blocks with insufficient memory tee. 26.5.98: st_4.res - Improved screen saver. Unlike st_3 not conflicts with ide+3sby. 26.5.98: ide_tune - Fixed: symptom ide+3sby was defined incorrectly. 27.5.98: uni_boot - Universal bootchik in ROM (8th version) allows you to write from now on it’s not only iS-DOS Chic, but also Classic, and perhaps even CP/M, MS-DOS, Pink Floyd, UNIX, and etc., if only they are available for ZX. uni_con.com will connect any bootloader named uni_boot.sys 27.5.98: ch+2.com. File bypass, protected from reading instead of Error 171. Useful but on devices with bad sectors. Convenient for files like uni_boot.sys June 1998 28.6.98: trd_ram - Loading image file TR-DOS disk from iS-DOS (usually a hard drive tera) into megabyte computer memory KAY with auto-start boot on TRDOS RAM disk. 30.6.98: Fileshow, arzt+ - Fixed indication error that occurred on the device swarms smaller than 800 blocks. August 1998 18.8.98: nmi.com - Game loader reset - using the MAGIC button for iS-DOS Chic and Classic. Works both on the flop and on the screw. Maximum convenience with minimum meh hassle. Requires 128KB RAM. 21.8.98: trd_ram: Bug fixed (Explosion at "AUTO BOOT N"). ram_trd - A reverse copyer has been written new side. October 1998 10/15/98: ide+4.blk - system support dated 4/30/98 - requests permission to enabling system interrupts. 10/28/98: boot.com - New support disc header format with 11-character nom name (22.1.97)10/28/98: rename.com - generating Error 82 in command mode if the output file already exists 10.29.98: delete.com - deleting directories in command mode November 1998 11/19/98: is_ibm+.com/res - Fixed: Error 101 on round files. 1999 29.4.99: Driver adopted IDE HDD Jason.blk (Moscow), which gives rooting up to 1.65 times in reading operations copying options: Tests: 1. Copy disk to disk (15 MB) from using abc.com - 1.65 times 2. Checking the disk with prog bad: in 1.4 3. Loading an electronic disk image 1.3 times (7 seconds instead of 9) 4. Checksum verification (9.7 MB) by 13% (2'58" instead of 3'25") 5. Copy directory (coca, 4286 blocks, 243 files) by 6.5% However, this driver has no brakes (Break not tracked) and almost never tested crashed on bad sectors. Therefore, please piss off, if you want, at your own peril and risk. 12.5.99: fileshow, arzt+ - Fixed indication 15.5.99: trd_ram - key /a for automatic chesical work. Working in ISDOS Classic 15.5.99: ide+5.blk - Accelerated by method Jason. Almost as fast, but with brakes and made from tested- ny predecessors. SPEED CHARACTERISTICS OF DRIVERS: Special tests: 0.1 16368 kB (16kB each) Linear READ TEST ide+4 117" =140 kbpside+5 78" =210 kbps 1.50 times Jason 73" =224 kbps at 1.60 (another 6.5%) 0.2 16368 blks 16kB REPEAT READ TEST ide+4 107" =153 kbps ide+5 68" =241 kbps 1.57 times Jason 66" =248 kbps at 1.62 (3 more%) ed128 58" =282 kbps another 12% 0.3 10608kB Linear WRITE TEST ide+4 101" =105 kbps ide+5 52" =204 kbps 1.94 times Jason 45" =236 kbps at 2.24 (another 13.5%) (ed128 282 kbps another 17%) Real tasks: 1. bad.com 65520 blks (READ) ide+4 138" =118 kbps ide+5 99" =165 kbps (1.39 times) Jason 99" =165 kbps ed128 81" =202 kbps floppy =14 kbps (kay.blk) 2. abc.com 7.8 MB (COPY) ide+4 159" =50 kbps ide+5 103" =77 kbps at 1.54 Jason 96" =83 kbps at 1.66 (generally 7%) floppy: less than 7 kbps 19.5.99: filecopy - /b to disable boo- fera. /a no longer affects the buffer. 20.5.99: from_trd and to_trdos - Support RAM disk (trdos device image on electronic disk starting from 512 block). Load trd file into 1MB RAM program trd_ram, and then climb programs from_trd and to_trdos directly to an electronic disk! 21.5.99: trd_ram, ram_trd, tr_boot - Ra- bot in iSDOS-48 ("Classic"), check availability of RAM disk driver and TRDOS RAM disk. 22.5.99: unicolor - An evil bug was caught, even leading to explosions at low cache size. Found and restoredhlp file killed more than a year ago. (But no one noticed!) 23.5.99: ide_tune - Without parameters itself finds the installed IDE driver. (files like mem_tune.bat are no longer needed us). Hotkey <0>. 23.5.99: arzt+ - 11 letters in the disk name. The VERIFY procedure has been accelerated (due to additional one buffer of 256 bytes) from 25% to electronic disk or ide+5.blk up to 7 times on long files. 25.5.99: from_msd - Accelerated by 2..3 times Best wishes, Boris aka OPER.