Pecusxmicro-sparta-dos
Sources for update and rewrite of Micro Sparta DOS by BW-SOFT
Changelog:
Micro-SpartaDOS (MSDOS.COM) ChangeLog (WHATSNEW.DOC)
By Jiri Bernasek - BEWESOFT Continued by Pecus & Pirx
MSDOS45.COM - Warsaw, 2010-06-12 Post-release update. Bugs fixed:
- in rare circumstances of a fragmented disk (specifically when the gap between consecutive sectors was between 128 and 254 secs, the loading failed) Thanks to KMK for the bug report!
New features:
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MSDOS recognizes a special entry in MSDOS.DAT configuration file. For the special file "* " (it is asterisk followed by 10 spaces) the long name space is decoded as a number of settings for a given directory. Version 4.5 uses 4 hexadecimal numbers. First three are values of colors in this sequence: letters, playground, frame ($2c5, $2c6, $2c8). Fourth turns off TURBO for the given directory when it equals to "00".
Example:
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020E0A01
This entry does NOT turn off the turbo, but sets colors like POKE 709,2:POKE 710,14:POKE 712,10
The configuration entry ("*" file) should be the first one on the list of files.
Turbo is turned off after reading the directory contents (directory itself may read in turbo mode).
Please note that MSDOS.DAT files are fully compatible throught all versions and we will strive to retain this compatibility.
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Support for all drives (1-15) Keys [Ctrl]+[A] to [Ctrl]+[O] select drives A: to O: (1-15, SpartDos style). Old style (pressing keys [1]-[8]) work just like it used to. Pressing keys [1]-[8] displays drives AtariDOS style (D1:, D2:). When letter keys are pressed, display switches to A:, B:, etc. style.
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MSINI3 - a new version of the long name editor now supporting color schemes and turbo switch. Few additional bugs fixed:
- crash on no Sparta
- bad rewert to edition
- some typos Enjoy new color schemes including Blues, Copper Plate and Bitter Lemon. Please note the avertised web page is not active anymore :).
MSDOS43.COM - Warsaw, 2010-05-29
Version 4.3 of MSDOS is a serious rewrite, done primarily by Pecus. It uses a novel approach to mapping index sectors. Basically, index sectors are read beforehand and the sector map is compressed to, usually, just few bytes - saving room that would be normally occupied by the second sector buffer. This is especially important for quadruple (512 bytes) sectors when two buffers would eat 1KiB. Version 4.3 contains only the most popular Happy / UltraSpeed routines. Holding [SHIFT] during booting turns off HS I/O entirely. This version detects BASIC and QMEG. With QMEG the High Speed I/O is turned off by the popular request as QMEG handles HS I/O by itself. After selecting the game to load the current MEMLO is shown on screen.
Other changes:
- Support for quadruple sectors (512 bytes long). This is possible in the latest SpartaDosX and expands the avalilable partition size to 32MiB.
- MSDOS does not revert to D1: after an error, but stays on the boot drive.
MSDOS30.COM - Warsaw, 2005
This version supports XF 551 drives with HS, Happy Warp/US-Doubler drives with High Speed, and Speedy HS (only in US-Doubler mode). When the program is using Happy and US routines, MEMLO is $AFC.
SIO2IDE interface is working great with this and later versions of MSDOS!
MSDOS23.COM - Warsaw, 2001
Pecus modified version with multi disc operation. Keys 1-8 - select working drive and read the main directory.
MSDOS22.COM - Prague, 93-05-03 original BEWESOFT version