Miscellaneous

- Minor correction to DMAMON to restore proper operation of interrupt testing
- Minor improvements to QPM documentation
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Wayne Warthen
2023-09-11 10:17:57 -07:00
parent bb70c36b36
commit 68e841e62c
13 changed files with 63 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -36,11 +36,19 @@ code brakpoints. This conflicts the use of that vector for any
system that is using interrupt mode 1. DEBUGZ can be configured
(using DBGINST) to use a different vector.
The QSTAMP program, which is used to initialize a disk for date/time
stamping, misbehavews when run on the (new) RomWBW 1024 directory
format disks. It creates an invalid directory entry for the
date/time stamp data file. This is definitely a QP/M issue. The
directory entry can be manually corrected.
The QSTAMP program, which is used to initialize a disk for date/time
stamping, misbehavews when run on the (new) RomWBW 1024 directory
format disks. It creates an invalid directory entry for the date/time
stamp data file. This is definitely a QP/M issue. The directory entry
can be manually corrected. Specifically the byte offset 15 should
contain the number of 128-byte records in the file. Instead, it is set
to 0x01. You can edit the entry, change it to 0x80 and everything
starts working.
There are two text files (QPMCMDS.TXT and QPMUTILS.TXT) included. They
came from the original QP/M 2.7 distribution. These files have
escape sequences imbedded in them which makes them look a little
strange depending on the terminal emulation you are using.
== QPM 2.7 Files ==