- Detect CTS at startup to ensure it is asserted. If not, disable hardware flow control to avoid stalling the console at boot. Only for UART driver because this is the only place it is currently relevant.
- The build process was enhanced by Dean Jenkins to support the Raspberry Pi. Note that the Propeller firmware will not be generated by a RPi build. See Issue #358.
- Initial support for USB storage via CH375/6.
- Added ability to enable VGARC and front panel in default config without I/O conflicts (does **not** support having both types of hardware present at the same time).
- Fixed documentation error in issue #345 reported by @MorfeoMatrixx.
- The use of hardware reset has been improved such that it is generally only used at initial boot up.
- Minor improvements to CF card detection and initialization.
- Implement a simple wait mechanism to accommodate the startup time of the RC2014 SD Pico module.
- Front panel I/O port for SC series of systems has been moved to 0x00 which is consistent with all other systems and avoids some I/O conflicts.
- Floppy devices are now configured per-device so that each floppy drive can be different (e.g., first floppy is 3.5" and second floppy is 5.25").
- Removed need to use termination signal on floppy sector I/O.
Addresses issue #318
Added configuration setting VDAEMU_SERKBD which can be used to specify any serial unit # to be used as the keyboard for the video terminal. Default value is $FF which means to use the default hardware keyboard. All other values mean that terminal input is to come from corresponding serial unit #.
Also a couple more tweaks to the p-System boot volume.
I got a very nice email from Eluan Miranda. He pointed out a few inconsistencies in the video and audio driver configurations. I made a few adjustments to clean things up.
- Renamed Centronics driver from "CEN" to "LPT" based on input that LPT is the more recognized name for IBM compatible Centronics interfaces.
- Modified LPT hardware detection to be more generic (no longer depends on MBC-specific hardware implementation).
- Fix to CPU speed display for SBC v2 (004 and above) speed selection mechanism.
Some systems use terminal devices (Raspberry Pi, etc.) that take a few seconds to be ready to display console text. The BOOT_DELAY setting can be used to introduce an arbitrary delay (in seconds) in the boot process just prior to text output. This can be used to avoid missing some of the boot messages.
- PS2INFO now provides a small startup menu to select either MBC or RHYOPHYRE (needs to be expanded to other platforms).
- Battery condition testing enabled by default in RHYOPHYRE.
- Z180 system timer enabled by default in RHYOPHYRE.
- Default ACR in RHYOPHYRE now turns on the status LED to indicate hardware is alive early in boot process.
