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Refer to: New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?...&order=time&descasc=DESC&category=0

> I brought this back to life for lDOS, with a few changes (mostly
> formatting, using lmacros2 lframe/lenter/lleave/lret, a few bugs).
>
> https://bitbucket.org/ecm/ldos/src/20453a2eb643240084c469fa2133c3643db7f74d/memory.asm
>
> It actually works as expected now, within the RxDOS 7.24 development state.
> RxDOSMEM is now implemented entirely by calls to this module.

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Thanks.
Do you plan to release updated RxDOS binaries?

> Refer to: New RxDOS memory subsystem source code
>
> http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?...&order=time&descasc=DESC&category=0
>
> > I brought this back to life for lDOS, with a few changes (mostly
> > formatting, using lmacros2 lframe/lenter/lleave/lret, a few bugs).
> >
> >
> https://bitbucket.org/ecm/ldos/src/20453a2eb643240084c469fa2133c3643db7f74d/memory.asm
> >
> > It actually works as expected now, within the RxDOS 7.24 development
> state.
> > RxDOSMEM is now implemented entirely by calls to this module.

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> Thanks.
> Do you plan to release updated RxDOS binaries?

I don't currently have access to any hosting. If Robert wants to upload something, I could prepare an archive.

It's still some way from being usable though; filesystem redirector support is entirely missing, initialisation doesn't relocate data structures yet (they sit at the top of low memory), some initialisation structures aren't deallocated yet (also at top of low memory), [Rx]CONFIG.SYS processing doesn't detect and report errors properly, RxCMD doesn't swap out its code segment (and it generally receives less attention on my part), an init PSP isn't used yet, sector sizes other than 512 bytes aren't properly supported yet, cluster sizes are only supported up to 32768 bytes.

Some things that I already did: DOSCODE to HMA, to UMA, or to LMA relocation, DOSDATA to UMA or LMA relocation, UMB linking and usage, setting up the CDS with 32 entries early on, full RPL/RPLOADER support, full LBA32 support, booting as a single-file kernel.

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> > Thanks.
> > Do you plan to release updated RxDOS binaries?
>
> I don't currently have access to any hosting. If Robert wants to upload
> something, I could prepare an archive.
>
> It's still some way from being usable though; filesystem redirector support
> is entirely missing, initialisation doesn't relocate data structures yet
> (they sit at the top of low memory), some initialisation structures aren't
> deallocated yet (also at top of low memory), [Rx]CONFIG.SYS processing
> doesn't detect and report errors properly, RxCMD doesn't swap out its code
> segment (and it generally receives less attention on my part), an init PSP
> isn't used yet, sector sizes other than 512 bytes aren't properly supported
> yet, cluster sizes are only supported up to 32768 bytes.
>
> Some things that I already did: DOSCODE to HMA, to UMA, or to LMA
> relocation, DOSDATA to UMA or LMA relocation, UMB linking and usage,
> setting up the CDS with 32 entries early on, full RPL/RPLOADER support,
> full LBA32 support, booting as a single-file kernel.

doesn't bitbucket providing space for binaries?
https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/

> doesn't bitbucket providing space for binaries?
> https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/

Well spotted! I didn't know that yet. I'll upload an archive once I finish the 7.24 release, which will likely be before 2018-07-07.

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I uploaded RxDOS-7.20N.zip, RxDOS-7.21.zip, RxDOS-7.22.zip, and RxDOS-7.23.zip to https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/ now. RxDOS 7.24 is not yet done.

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Thanks!

> I uploaded RxDOS-7.20N.zip, RxDOS-7.21.zip, RxDOS-7.22.zip, and
> RxDOS-7.23.zip to https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/ now.
> RxDOS 7.24 is not yet done.

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> > doesn't bitbucket providing space for binaries?
> > https://bitbucket.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x/downloads/
>
> Well spotted! I didn't know that yet. I'll upload an archive once I finish
> the 7.24 release, which will likely be before 2018-07-07.

hi, any news about development?

> > the 7.24 release, which will likely be before 2018-07-07.
>
> hi, any news about development?

No, I haven't done as much as I'd like yet. If I get back to development I'll probably add a feature or two and then release 7.24.

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