Authored by J.G.Harston
- Last update: 10-Jun-2023| MDFS::Docs.Web.Changes | Search |
| Date | ||
| 01-Mar-2019 |
ZipCrunch renamed to
ZipCopy.
Rebuilt
cZ80Tube with updated
console library. Removed Windows-specific code from
DefChar, debounced mouse clicks and
cleaned up error recovery.
Added some
8x8 system fonts: Atari,
MSX, Einstein and VGA.
Documented FastROMFS implementation. CTS Palette Extended details added to FREDAddrs, FREDTable summary added. Added details of Electron Plus1 I/O addresses and notes on Watford scanner. Added keyboard layouts with negative INKEY codes, and Electron keyboard codes. Attempted to fully document pre-defined symbols for various C compilers, and tried to make a rationalised list. Added Amstrad CPC keyboard layouts. Summary list of ZX Spectrum calculator literals. Typed up Spectrum system variables list. Documented Spectrum channel information blocks and written sample channel selection and manipulation code. Documented physical colour numbers on various platforms. BBC USB Support ROM with keyboard, mouse and printer drivers for RetroClinc Datacentre. Updated Plus1/AP6 support ROM. Added some more BBC BASIC test programs. Added code to convert between BASIC file formats and demonstration program. Wrote *SoundTo command and PlayBack program to record and play back SOUND and ENVELOPE commands. Updated C console library with CONIO colour output, ANSI output, function/editing input, filled in gaps and errors with Japanese keyscans, Ctrl/Shift/Alt handling of special keys rewritten. | [2561M] [100,808 files] |
| 01-Sep-2018 |
Tidied up
DiskToFile and FileToDisk, and
matched code with DiskToUSB and
USBtoDisk.
Recovered
AGNMail and BeebMail.
Rended the doggy Latin Porterhouse Blue anthem into English. Added software RESET code and ROM. AsmPDP implements #define, and #include searches <> and "" paths, leafnames truncated if too long. Tweeked and tidied PDP11 assembler library and code samples. Documented INKEY-256 and special file handles for PDP11 BBC BASIC. Recreated source for System 5 DOS with updated Spool/Exec handler and teletext character conversion. Added a few more BBC relocatable modules. | [2561M] [100,808 files] |
| 02-Mar-2018 |
BBCZip name conversion optimised,
supports fsname: prefix, ZipInfo gives fuller display, tweeked Manual pages.
Path conversion fixed in
ZipToInf, added -X option.
Updated DiskTools: updated DiskToFile
and FileToDisk, added MkImg and UnImg, fixed convertsion of short ADFS
images with DSDtoSSD and SSDtoDSD. Faster USB access with
DiskToUSB and USBtoDisk.
PDPTube uses fast
multiply and rotate code. Added TRS80 and UK101
system fonts.
BBCtoBMP supports LDPIC
files. AFSFiler and
SJFiler added (C)onfirm option,
checks if outside image, checks map on all files. Tidied up archives of
file servers.
Transcribed and added missing pages to System 2 manual. Updated 6502 Emulator OpCodes documentation. Added 6809, 6309 and PDP11 platforms to HostVals and INKEY-256 lists. Updated BBC Metadata documentation, keyboard buffer codes and keyboard scan codes. Documented BASIC assembler OPT values. Wrote demo code to save BASIC arrays. Slight updated to disk filesystem format documents. Added various keyboard layouts and USB keyboard keycodes and layout. Updated Whitby Census and Street List files. Added some more 6502 programing fragments. Tidied ADFS source. Updated VDU 19 API notes. Found a picture of Clywd palette extender. Patch for VideoNuLA to use regularised MODE numbers. BBC program snippets to cause a RESET, select any filing system. Development code for BBC USB keyboard driver. Added AddSub32 and MultDiv32 to PDP-11 programming tips. Scanned some sketch SAA5050 circuits. Wrote up some notes on using Atom keyboard on a Spectrum. Put together demo ARM code to read the command line on multiple platforms. Discovered another version of 6502 BBC BASIC I. Uploaded a collection of keyboard testing programs. Demo BB4W code for selecting a file by dropping it into the application. Updated LDPIC/SVPIC to support 12-bit palettes. Optimised various I/O calls in PDP11 BASIC and some small bugfixes. Added Toni Baker's Spectrum Streams & Channels code. Disassemblies of various Acorn Atom ROMs. | 2561M 100,808 files |
| 10-Aug-2017 |
Added simple multi-purpose
disk imager. Small bugfix to
*RESET command in
6809Em and
PDPTube.
Updated 6809 CoPro documentation. Added 6809 platforms to OSBYTE 0 host map and OSBYTE list. Tidied up layout of high memory MOS entry list. Added extended palette control to SHEILA address list. Uploaded list of SOUND pitch, frequency and MIDI note number note table, program to generate the table. and SOUND command technical information. Uploaded 2017 election results for Sheffield and Whitby. Updated Chamelion palette control demo programs to be able to use standard VDU 19 calls and the PaletteMate. BASIC code to load and save configuration settings. Wrote a 65816 disassembly module. Added a few more BASIC testing programs. Bugfix to BBC Flex DiskIO module and disk formatter to use correct sector offset. Fixed INT rounding in PDP11 BASIC and optimised tokeniser. Updated 6809 and PDP11 CoPro clients to fix reported bugs and updated 6812 to match. Updated CoPro test programs. Updated Tube documentation to document that Tube data transfer mustn't alter Tube execution address. Started disassembling and documenting Acorn 65816 Communicator MOS API and modules. | 2561M 100,808 files |
| 10-Apr-2017 |
DiskToUSB keeps filing system
selected to speed up transfers. Added emulator traps to
BeebEm with updated
VDFS.
SoftMDFS implements operations
needed for Atom clients.
Updated 6809 CoPro documents. Compiled a 32000 opcode list. Updated 6502 emulator traps list. Updated BBC memory map with some Electron information and updated MemAddrs extended addressing information. Listed Acorn Mask ROM code numbers. Finished transcribing 1951 Whitby electoral register as a proxy for the 1951 Whitby census. Progressing through Whitby election maps. Added code to demostrate using the 6502 stack as dynamic workspace. Uploaded Chamelion documentation and demo programs, VDU 19 extension to control a 24-bit palette and a VDU 19 extension to flash between non-complementary colours. HDInit detects the ADFS hard drive device type. Cleaned up the 8-bit IDE schematic. Combined BBC and Master versions of IDEPatch. Sample code showing how to use high workspace memory. Corrected some typos in Spectrum device selection. Fixed SUBC/TBIT/XOR bug in 32000 disassembler. Added more examples to BBC Modules list. Updated 32000 BBC BASIC disassemblies. Added some more test programs for testing BBC BASIC. Got Jet Set Willy working on the Master. Put together room maps for BBC versions of Jet Set Willy. Added comments on block graphics bug to Jet Set Willy assembly code. Added Spectrum Serial Tube Host, originally written as VDUEcho. | [1700M] [104,970 files] |
| Earlier changes: | 10-Nov-2016 19-Feb-2012 12-Jul-2008 16-Mar-2006 24-Jul-2004 30-May-2003 04-Jan-2002 06-Feb-2001 31-Aug-2000 | |
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Authored by J.G.Harston
- Last update: 10-Jun-2023