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Addition of coco port
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date Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:01:34 +0000
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1 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.06:
2 - rbf now supports the SS.FDInf GetStat call.
3 - Support for booting from fragmented bootfiles has been added.
4 - os9gen has been updated to allow the creation of fragmented bootfiles.
5 - dir and mdir now have more robust support for various screen widths when
6 displaying data.
7 - dir and attr now use the SS.FDInf getstat call to obtain a file's FD sector.
8 - dsave now has -t and -n options.
9 - TODO: Modify L1 RBF to handle SS.FDInf!
10 - A bug in format which affected 128MB partitions has been fixed.
11 - /D2 descriptor now part of standard bootfile.
12
13 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.05:
14 - rb1773 now properly saves/restores system's NMI vector.
15 - An issue with formatting 3.5" 720K disks has been resolved.
16 - Two new modules: CO51.io and term51.dt are available for 51x24 text
17 support on a graphics screen.
18 - CO80.io and term80.dt are no longer included in the repository, as
19 there is no known supported hardware for these modules.
20
21 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.04:
22 - Fixed several problems/mistakes in the V03.02.03 release.
23
24 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.03:
25 - format has been enhanced to show more information about the disk being
26 formatted.
27 - dirm has been removed from the commands list.
28 - exmode has been renamed to xmode and replaces the original xmode command.
29 - tmode now uses the new xmode format for parameters.
30 - disasm has a new -s option which is used to specify the start and end
31 addresses to disassemble within a module.
32 - RBF for Level 1 now supports SS.VarSect
33 - Bugs in the clock2_jvemu and clock2_smart modules have been fixed.
34
35 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.02:
36 - Two new clocks have been added for Jeff Vavasour's CoCo emulator and MESS:
37 clock2_jvemu and clock2_messemu, respectively.
38 - kernel and kernelp2 have been renamed to krn and krnp2 respectively.
39 - cc3disk has been renamed to rb1773 and has been back-ported to
40 NitrOS-9 Level 1. A bug in the verify routine has been fixed.
41 - Drivers for the Disto Super Controller II are now available as
42 rb1773_scii_ff74.dr and rb1773_scii_ff58.dr.
43 - The copy command now has write verification with -v.
44 - term_t1.dd has been renamed to term_sio.dd and term_sc6551.dd has been added.
45
46 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.01 (May 14, 2004):
47 - CCDisk has been replaced by a more reliable version from Dave Lewis. Also,
48 step rate codes now match that of NitrOS-9 Level 2.
49 - An assembler bug which generated incorrect code for Level 1
50 has been corrected, and new modules have been generated.
51 - Bugs in the mpi and megaread utilities have been fixed.
52
53 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.01:
54 - A minor bug in the unlink command has been fixed.
55 - The mpi and megaread utilities have been added to the CMDS directory.
56 - The dmode utility has been updated.
57 - Shell+ has been backported.
58 - vrn has been backported and the nil descriptor now requires vrn.
59 - nildrv has been removed.
60 - The F$PrsNam call has been fixed to allow 0-9 and _ as the first character
61 in a filename.
62 - Several bugs in dsave's -b option have been fixed.
63 - The cchdisk driver and descriptors are no longer in the distribution.
64 - sacia has been backported from Level 2 as sc6551.
65 - modpak.dr and aciapak.dr have been replaced by sc6551.
66 - rs232.dr has been renamed to sio.dr to match the Level 2 driver name.
67
68 NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.00:
69 - os9 and os9p2 have been renamed to kernel and kernelp2.
70 - A new utility, padrom, has been added to the standard commands.
71 - Merge now supports -z to get a list of files from standard input.
72 - The serial printer driver and Speech-Sound Pak driver have been back-ported
73 from Level 2.
74 - Level 1 now has a REL module similar to Level 2.
75 - The clock and clock2 architecture has been back-ported from Level 2.
76 - The faster PipeMan, Piper and Pipe have been back-ported from Level 2.
77 - The MDir utility now shows proper module revision of 0 and other minor
78 improvements in extended output.
79
80 OS-9 Level One V03.01.04:
81 - asm is now at edition 8 and includes the following fixes/additions:
82 o Symbols now allow underscores.
83 o The "parens error" bug has been fixed.
84 o Added support for case-sensitive symbols with the U option flag.
85 o Improved 4-digit year fix for date/time string.
86 o Automatic conversion of tabs to spaces on input.
87 - A bug accidentally introduced into os9gen related to boot track on
88 double-sided disks has been fixed.
89 - The directory structure of the Modules disk has been modified. All
90 modules and related files are now under the LEVEL1 directory.
91 - There are now two versions of sysgo: sysgo_h0 which performs chd/chx
92 to /H0 on startup, and sysgo_dd which performs chd/chx to /DD on startup.
93 - A compatibility issue with os9gen's -t option and OS-9 Level One
94 has been resolved.
95
96 OS-9 Level One V03.01.03:
97 - The asm program now supports 6309 bitfield instructions.
98 - The prompt command has been added to the standard command set.
99 - os9gen now supports the -t= option which allows one to specify an
100 alternate boot track file.
101 - Two new directories have been added: BOOTLISTS and BOOTSCRIPTS.
102 The former contains bootlist files for building boot disks, while
103 the latter contains scripts to build boot disks.
104 - Clock modules for Eliminator, Disto 2-N-1, Disto 4-N-1, Harris, and
105 SmartWatch have been added (these are all UNTESTED.) Also, the
106 clock_bb clock module has been renamed to clock_bnb, and clock.60hz
107 and clock.50hz have been renamed to clock_soft and clock_soft_50hz.
108 - There are now two booters for booting from a WD1773 based
109 floppy controller: boot_1773_6ms and boot_1773_30ms for
110 6 and 30 millisecond step rates.
111 - The help utility has been enhanced to show help subjects if
112 forked without any command line parameters.
113
114 OS-9 Level One V03.01.02:
115 - A bug in the help utility has been fixed.
116 - The MODULES directory structure has been enhanced to include
117 multiple subdirectories for better module organization.
118 - Booter modules for Burke & Burke, Disto RAMPak, Eliminator and
119 IDE-LBA have been added.
120 - The BOOTLISTS/ directory has been added on the Modules disk, and
121 contains bootlist files for various configurations.
122 - The cputype command has been optimized for size.
123 - Minor help file updates have been made.
124
125 OS-9 Level One V03.01.01:
126 - SYS/helpmsg expanded to include new commands.
127 - ident now correctly reports modules with a language byte of Obj6309.
128 - The LogBook file in the SYS directory has been removed.
129 - A bug in the cputype command that caused crashing on a 6809 system
130 has been fixed.
131
132 OS-9 Level One V03.01.00:
133 - New common version among all releases of OS-9 for the CoCo
134 - Many commands have been updated and optimized:
135 o For size reasons, command help information is no longer embedded in the
136 utilites, but is instead available through the helpmsg file in /DD/SYS
137 o date, dir, mdir, procs and verify now require a dash (-) before options
138 o format now has a cluster option and now shows the correct number of
139 good sectors on large sector devices
140 o Numerous commands have been optimized for size
141 o cputype, ded, devs, disasm, dmode and irqs have been added to the
142 CMDS directory
143 o cmp, error, help and touch have been rewritten in assembly for size
144 o copy has been enhanced to include OS-9/68K-like features
145
146 OS-9 Level One V02.01.00 'Phoenix' Release (11/04/2002):
147 - Defs files now have properly terminated lines and 'pag' is now emitted
148 as a comment.
149 - SYS/password now references /DD instead of /D0
150 - ASM now assembles 6309 op-codes