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RG fixed a bug in the Vavasour emulator clock2 module. clock2 is now of type Sbrtn instead of Systm. clock.asm has been modified to link to this type.
author boisy
date Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:20:31 +0000
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NitrOS-9/6309 Level 2 V03.02.03:
- disasm has been updated.

NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.02:
- Two new clocks have been added for Jeff Vavasour's CoCo emulator and MESS:
  clock2_jvemu and clock2_messemu, respectively.
- kernel and kernelp2 have been renamed to krn and krnp2 respectively.
- cc3disk has been renamed to rb1773 and has been back-ported to
  NitrOS-9 Level 1.  A bug in the verify routine has been fixed.
- Drivers for the Disto Super Controller II are now available as
  rb1773_scii_ff74.dr and rb1773_scii_ff58.dr.
- The copy command now has write verification with -v.
- term_t1.dd has been renamed to term_sio.dd and term_sc6551.dd has been added.

NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.01 (May 14, 2004):
- CCDisk has been replaced by a more reliable version from Dave Lewis. Also,
  step rate codes now match that of NitrOS-9 Level 2.
- An assembler bug which generated incorrect code for Level 1
  has been corrected, and new modules have been generated.
- Bugs in the mpi and megaread utilities have been fixed.

NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.01:
- A minor bug in the unlink command has been fixed.
- The mpi and megaread utilities have been added to the CMDS directory.
- The dmode utility has been updated.
- Shell+ has been backported.
- vrn has been backported and the nil descriptor now requires vrn.
- nildrv has been removed.
- The F$PrsNam call has been fixed to allow 0-9 and _ as the first character
  in a filename.
- Several bugs in dsave's -b option have been fixed.
- The cchdisk driver and descriptors are no longer in the distribution.
- sacia has been backported from Level 2 as sc6551.
- modpak.dr and aciapak.dr have been replaced by sc6551.
- rs232.dr has been renamed to sio.dr to match the Level 2 driver name.

NitrOS-9/6809 Level 1 V03.02.00:
- os9 and os9p2 have been renamed to kernel and kernelp2.
- A new utility, padrom, has been added to the standard commands.
- Merge now supports -z to get a list of files from standard input.
- The serial printer driver and Speech-Sound Pak driver have been back-ported
  from Level 2.
- Level 1 now has a REL module similar to Level 2.
- The clock and clock2 architecture has been back-ported from Level 2.
- The faster PipeMan, Piper and Pipe have been back-ported from Level 2.
- The MDir utility now shows proper module revision of 0 and other minor
  improvements in extended output.

OS-9 Level One V03.01.04:
- asm is now at edition 8 and includes the following fixes/additions:
  o Symbols now allow underscores.
  o The "parens error" bug has been fixed.
  o Added support for case-sensitive symbols with the U option flag.
  o Improved 4-digit year fix for date/time string.
  o Automatic conversion of tabs to spaces on input.
- A bug accidentally introduced into os9gen related to boot track on
  double-sided disks has been fixed.
- The directory structure of the Modules disk has been modified.  All
  modules and related files are now under the LEVEL1 directory.
- There are now two versions of sysgo: sysgo_h0 which performs chd/chx
  to /H0 on startup, and sysgo_dd which performs chd/chx to /DD on startup.
- A compatibility issue with os9gen's -t option and OS-9 Level One
  has been resolved.

OS-9 Level One V03.01.03:
- The asm program now supports 6309 bitfield instructions.
- The prompt command has been added to the standard command set.
- os9gen now supports the -t= option which allows one to specify an
  alternate boot track file.
- Two new directories have been added: BOOTLISTS and BOOTSCRIPTS.
  The former contains bootlist files for building boot disks, while
  the latter contains scripts to build boot disks.
- Clock modules for Eliminator, Disto 2-N-1, Disto 4-N-1, Harris, and
  SmartWatch have been added (these are all UNTESTED.)  Also, the
  clock_bb clock module has been renamed to clock_bnb, and clock.60hz
  and clock.50hz have been renamed to clock_soft and clock_soft_50hz.
- There are now two booters for booting from a WD1773 based
  floppy controller: boot_1773_6ms and boot_1773_30ms for
  6 and 30 millisecond step rates.
- The help utility has been enhanced to show help subjects if
  forked without any command line parameters.

OS-9 Level One V03.01.02:
- A bug in the help utility has been fixed.
- The MODULES directory structure has been enhanced to include
  multiple subdirectories for better module organization.
- Booter modules for Burke & Burke, Disto RAMPak, Eliminator and
  IDE-LBA have been added.
- The BOOTLISTS/ directory has been added on the Modules disk, and
  contains bootlist files for various configurations.
- The cputype command has been optimized for size.
- Minor help file updates have been made.

OS-9 Level One V03.01.01:
- SYS/helpmsg expanded to include new commands.
- ident now correctly reports modules with a language byte of Obj6309.
- The LogBook file in the SYS directory has been removed.
- A bug in the cputype command that caused crashing on a 6809 system
  has been fixed.

OS-9 Level One V03.01.00:
- New common version among all releases of OS-9 for the CoCo
- Many commands have been updated and optimized:
   o For size reasons, command help information is no longer embedded in the
     utilites, but is instead available through the helpmsg file in /DD/SYS
   o date, dir, mdir, procs and verify now require a dash (-) before options
   o format now has a cluster option and now shows the correct number of
     good sectors on large sector devices
   o Numerous commands have been optimized for size
   o cputype, ded, devs, disasm, dmode and irqs have been added to the
     CMDS directory
   o cmp, error, help and touch have been rewritten in assembly for size
   o copy has been enhanced to include OS-9/68K-like features

OS-9 Level One V02.01.00 'Phoenix' Release (11/04/2002):
- Defs files now have properly terminated lines and 'pag' is now emitted
  as a comment.
- SYS/password now references /DD instead of /D0
- ASM now assembles 6309 op-codes