Update CLRDIR with minor update from the author Max Scane to emphasize the need to type a capital Y to proceed. Thanks and credit to Max Scane for this application.
Adds CLRDIR to the Applications document.
- This change avoids clearing the screen every time an OS reset occurs. A non-destructive VDC reset is now performed that leaves the screen contents and cursor position unchanged.
- If an application overwrites the video RAM, then the screen may contain garbage upon return to OS. However, the console will still be functional and the user can just press enter a few times to clear the screen.
Correct obsolete reference to DiskList.txt in the ReadMe.txt file in the Binary Directory.
Thanks and credit to @shawnshekari (issue #390) for reporting this.
- Generic serial interface client support files have been added. This mode of operation is not documented in the RomWBW User Guide. Refer to <https://github.com/durgadas311/cpnet-z80>.
- Minor patch to NULU so it does not spit out a directory listing every time it is invoked.
Based on input from Martin R, the console takeover mechanism has been modified to require that the space bar be pressed twice in a row on the character unit desiring to be the console. This reduces the chance of a spurious console takeover due to garbage input on serial ports.
- If enabled by AUTOCON config setting, you can press <space> at any character device to take over the console at the boot loader prompt.
- Correction to SIOSEEK documentation in System Guide. Thanks and credit to Martin R.
- Minor doc updates
- Comment updates in ansi.asm and tms.asm
- Correction to build process for ROMless systems
- Fix for ZRC (default configuration) to use all available RAM
- Last check-in had a couple of config file errors which are corrected here.
- Also updated Appendix A of the User Guide to reflect new CH37x port addressing.
- Credit and thanks to Martin R for providing a substantial list of suggested fixes and improvements to the User Guide. I have done my best to address them -- others will require more time and will hopefully be addressed in the future.
Based on input from Issue #364, I have attempted to clarify a few areas on the User Guide:
- Recommendation to only use ROM OSes only for limited purposes
- Added a more detailed description of the automatic drive assignment algorithm
- Added more detail on batch file auto-submission
- Added support for Duodyne Multi-IO board
- Added support for Duodyne Zilog-IO board
- Added SUPCTS equate in hbios.asm to allow selectively adding code to suppress use of CTS during HBIOS boot
- Added reference in User Guide to Bruce Hall's Assembly Language Programming document
- Add minimal Fuzix instructions to User Guide
- Enable CTC auto-detect by default for RCBus. It causes no problems to auto-detect it and it will stop a CTC from generating unexpected interrupts after a soft restart.
- Upgrade `SUPERSUB` to v1.3 (previously v1.1)
- The naming of ZZRCC was incorrectly ZZRC. Corrected.
- Max Scane has provided a small bug fix for CLRDIR.
- Minor build updates for new HTalk utility.
The QPM portion of the build has been updated to dynamically combine the current CBIOS with the static QPM CCP and BDOS binaries. This will keep the QPM system image up to date and avoid HBIOS version mismatch warnings.
Added a new driver category for DSKY (Display/Keypad) devices. Existing DSKY devices were converted into drivers ICM and PKD. These devices were previously DSKY and DSKYNG.
This removes substantial code duplication and recovers significant space in romldr and dbgmon.
- Modified the Disk Device function call (DIODEVICE) to provide new attributes related to disk size and removability.
- Leveraged API change to allow handling drive assignment differently depending on ATAPI vs. ATA interface.
- Added WDATE command courtesy Kevin Boone. See https://github.com/kevinboone/wdate-cpm for more information.
- Final cleanup of PPA/IMM/SYQ drivers including CPU speed compensated timeouts.
- 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.
