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| 31-Jul-2010 | Clearer list of ZipTools. Completely rewrote DiskToImg and ImgToDisk and wrote much better documentation. MkImage can recurse into source directories to copy to DFS directories. PDPTube implements Unix indir, exec and exece. BBCtoBMP and BMPtoBBC updated to parse "quoted" command line parameters, initial *BMPSave command written. Added some more details to Whitby Yards Gazetter. Uploaded list of BBC error messages. Updated OSBYTE list with specific Texas Instruments values. Updated OSWORD list Added documentation on 1770 (Floppy Controller), 9914 (IEEE Interface) and 6581 (Sound Interface) ports. Added clock speed settings for various 6850 (Serial Interface) devices. Added 6581 SID and IEEE 9914 details to FRED Addresses. Added some more commentary and tidyed up formatting for OS 1.20 disassembly. Tidyed up Econet documents, adding FindServer, Econet Over IP, Packets, Ports and Simple Connection. Added MIDI, BMP and GIF file format documents. Added some of Ben's Management Speak. Uploaded some Charlie and the Chocolate Factory song lyrics. Uploaded latest election result documents, including probable STV and AV results. Updated MIDI documentation, added Casio HT700 MIDI summary. Added system() call in PDP-11 assembler. Written replacement Acorn CP/M BIOS to provide hard drive support. Written a few general-purpose CP/M utilities and [GET|PUT][SYS|CCP|BDOS|BIOS] commands. Added SETPATH command for SJCCP. Rewritten and properly documented BBC *MIDI Sound-to-MIDI redirection command. Lots of Unix calls implemented in PDP-11 BASIC: OSARGS, OSCLI, SAVE, LOAD, OPENIN/OUT/UP, CLOSE. SIGSEG and SIGBUS trapped and generate local error. Comparisons implemented, CALL addr,params done. Written PDP-11 AddrOf library and Windows WinCmd to catch errors from WinDOS commands. | [631M] [55367 files] |
| 31-Dec-2009 | Written USBFiler to access BBC USB devices. Updated Whitby yards list and Whitby yards gazetter. Added 2681 and USB ports to BBC I/O addresses. Uploaded translation map between VDU function and OSBYTE 160. Added Little Shop of Horrows script and quotations from the Book of Om. Added some more historical Sheffield election details. Tweeked IDEDump to correctly write 16-bit data with a 16-bit interface. Uploaded 'C' and VisualBasic code to read and write BBC BASIC data files. Uploaded description of High Stones walk. HexDiff and HexPatch updated to use faster file I/O and updated command line parsing. PDP BASIC stacks program structures, RESTORE/LOCAL/PROC(addr%)/FN(addr%) implemented. Tweeked 'C' documents. Written AddrOf and Windows Path BASIC libraries. | 631M [55367 files] |
| 30-Aug-2009 | Updated BBCZip Options documentation. Created ZipToInf tool to extract Acorn metadata from ZIP archives. Added ADFImage to DiskTools. Added documentation and Windows version of MkImage. Bugfix for UxFiler, does OPENOUT before writing instead of OPENIN. Z80Tube uses workspace for handlers, uses embedded code if Z80Tube$Basic system variable not present, added *CPM command and -cpm option to start in CPM. PDPTube and 65TubeEm correctly access VDU variables and mouse position on Windows Updated documentation on Pretov DOSFS. Added conversion utilities between BBC screen dumps and bitmaps and uploaded some samples. Updated NGRCalc grid reference calculator to do Channel Islands and Ireland, and provide a command line interface so it can be called from other code. Updated RISC OS network library with SyncTime. Added *SAVE and *LOAD parsing to SoftMDFS to support Atom clients. Uploaded updated Whitby Yards street list and yards list and uploaded full yards Gazetteer. Added TI Calculator to list of host values. Uploaded ARM opcode map. Updated BBC memory layout with mouse and Econet workspace details. Uploaded list of CMOS RAM locations. Added 6809 entry points for BBC API documentation. Added translation code to DOSFS and Unix attributes to FileAccess documentation. Added Acacia/Retro RAMFS handles to handles list. Uploaded details of palette entries stored in load/exec addresses and updated ScanDir to use library functions. Updated list of Econet Changes and Versions. Added general keyboard and PC kayboard layouts. Added some more entries to RISC OS SWI blocks and SWI list. Uploaded lyrics for Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Added Weird Al catalogue and aplit lyrics into individual albums. Added Matt Smith to Dr Who programme list. Rearranged scripts by season. Updated Sheffield election maps for last couple of years and updated council tax documents. Uploaded Sheffield's 2009 European election documents and Whitby European and North Yorkshire election documents. Rescanned and updated BBC circuit diagrams. HDInit IDE drive initialiser displays full details by default and checks if not running in I/O processor. Added documentaion for IDE test programs. Uploaded pictures of working 16-bit interface. Added code to tokenise with Z80 BASIC. Uploaded Z80 square roots code. Reprocessed and uploaded JGH pictures archives and disk images. Uploaded EARS MakeReg to create a paper register from EARS data. Tweeked disassembly programs and libraries to supply address and data width hints. PDP BASIC can load and tokenise text file. Tokeniser sped up with offsets to each initial letter, line numbers tokenised correctly, LineFind written to search for program line for GOTO/GOSUB/RETURN and line editing. LOAD file$,addr implemented, 31-bit decimal numbers working, times10 subroutine working. Tweeked layout of C coding documents and files. Rearranged BBC libraries to be bbc/os.h, bbc/xos.h and bbc/vdu.h, etc. Added BBC libraries to list of C libraries. Updated CmdLine library to deal with quoted entities. Updated Phone library to deal with full UK telephone number range. Added sample code to find netowkr server. Added Z80 BASIC code to Tokeniser library. Uploaded sample code to add additional network drivers to NFS and ANFS ROMs. | 536M 55367 files |
| 05-Mar-2009 | Added documentation for SSDtoDSD and DSDtoSSD. Updated Unix Filer to handle DOS extension better and corrected documentation. Escape handling in PDPTube moved entirely into background. BasConv updated to translate new ARM BASIC EXIT and PRIVATE tokens. Uploaded Acorn Graphics Extension ROM manual and programs. Uploaded new Whitby Yards cover, reduced-size map and other information. Added SoliDisk information to OSBYTEs list Tweeked layout of BBC API pages. Added preliminary information on the Rabbit CPU. Rearranged Rockall pages and maps to use more appropriate filenames. Added a few more 6502 and Z80 programming tips. Uploaded BBC keyboard circuit diagram and SAA5050-series teletext display IC information. Updated various JGH PD disk archives and disk images. Uploaded CAVE for CPM and updated CPM utilities images. Updated Z80 BBC BASIC ROM to cope better with co-existing with ARM CoProcessor. Started updating ARM BBC BASIC to implement BBC BASIC for Windows extensions. BBFW Make system can include icon files and RISC OS version can crunch the included BASIC code. PDP11 assembler only doesn't output listing to screen if no listing file specified. PDP11 BASIC implements static variables, address-of function, MOS calls via CALL and USR, catching SIGINT and SIGQUIT in background working properly, TIME, OSARGS and OSBYTE return correct values on UNIX, LOAD file$,addr implemented. Finally tracked down copy of Part 2 of Dragon In The Tube, using a Dragon as a 6809 CoPro. Updated and added some more BASIC libraries. Uploaded DNFS 2.00 (DFS 1.00/NFS 3.40). | 505M 52252 files |
| 11-Nov-2008 | Better Escape processing in PDPTube. Added grid reference calculator for Channel Islands. Will integrate Great Britain, Ireland and Channel Islands into one program later. Updated network library. Updated printer driver for HP Deskjet. Added some more yards to Yards of Whitby location lists. Reformatted filing system handles list to fit CUBE IOFS better. Rescanned all drives to update SWI list. Added maps and grid references for Channel Islands and information on the OSGB grid. Tweeked Rockall documents to get better naming consistancy. Uploaded demo Geograph centisquare. Uploaded Sunscreen lyrics. Updated Asimov timeline and Doctor Who programme list. Uploaded Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study 162-164 Church Street, Whitby. Tweeked Chameleon circuit diagram, previously data lines were swapped on two latches. Updated MkSrc to recognise ROM image load/exec addresses. Updated BBC BASIC archives with correct datestamps. Uploaded magazine articles that accompanied PrList, VList and MDump. PDP BASIC does octal and binary output as well as hex and decimal. Uploaded mirror of Erik Groenhuis's Calendar module. Fixed a couple of typos in the comments in PDP11 Tube client and Z80 Serial client. Added BBC Serial host. Uploaded magazine article that accompanied GetPages. | 496M 51872 files |
| 17-Sep-2008 | Added SolarSys orrery to animation programs. Bigfixed and modularised MkImage. UxFiler supports 24-bit Unix file system. PDPTube manages DOS/Windows filename extensions properly. Uploaded text version of 32016 Assembler manual and PanOS Guide. Added a PDP11 CoPro technical reference. Reviewed and updated Whitby Yards street list. Uploaded introduction to 65816 CPU. Added &F95 (Code) to Acorn filetypes list. Updated ZIP file format extras field documentation with extended BBC/RISC OS entries. Added ARM opcode map. Added VIEW workspace OSBYTE to OSBYTE list. Added list of memory size for different screen sizes. Documented Unix 16-bit and 24-bit file system formats. Tweeked PDP-11 Unix system call documents and added list of differences between UNIX 6 and UNIX 7. Added some more BBC man pages. Typed up some more 1891 Whitby Census documents. Zipped up MDFS disk images to compress them. Rearchived Z80 BBC BASIC archives. Added programming tip on exporting Windows registry entries. Added SOB and M[T|F]{PD|PI|PS] opcodes to PDP11 assembler. PDP11 BBC BASIC has full interface commands and functions, hex, octal and binary input and output, full seven-level recursive expression evaluator, all integer arithmetic and string functions written, chunk of commands implemented. Added page on example installation procedures. Uploaded sample PDP11 ROM header source code. | 485M 51107 files |
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