New DexOS release

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:25 pm

You can test the latest release of DexOS here:
http://www.dex4u.com/download.htm
Thanks in-advance.

Note: The "win.dex" DexOS's new GUI is not finished.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:04 pm

Looks great, from what I tested, very stable.
Good work!

-JL

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:24 pm

Thanks piranha.

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:40 pm

Indeed, quite stable. One problem I had was that I couldn't (using the downloaded ISO file) change directories in the command shell. For instance, the following didn't work:

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cd DRIVERS

Am I missing something?

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:29 am

Thanks for testing Yayyak.
I have had other reports about not being able to use the ISO, yet it works fine with others not sure why this is, but i will look into it.

For the changing of dir you need to add / or \ eg:

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cd \drivers

and to change back to root you would

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cd \

To change drive you would

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c:

or

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d:

Once again, thanks for the info.

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:46 pm

Works well on a real hardware.

Altough, I've created an empty directory "wtf" inside the directory "icons" lets say. cd \icons does work, but cd \icons\wtf, cd wtf or cd \wtf doesn't work.

DexOS took ~30 seconds to load from a floppy drive, in emulators it was a bit faster. To say the truth, using the PMODE disk access (especially for a FDD drive) was more than 80% faster than the real mode access on a hw machine.

The play wave thing does work perfectly on a mobo-integrated SB Vibra 16XV. Look at the PLAYWAV.DEX file size, it's just beautiful.

I highly doubt some PCM modulated 44,100Hz sound would have -at least- 3 MB

Sadly, I couldn't run 1/2 of the applications on the DexOS diskette, they complained about VESA not supported. I use VGA named S3 Virge DX with 4 MB vram.

DexOS could access my DOS fat16 partition, but didn't found the other hidden primary FAT16's/secondary NTFS's (sorry for being picky, just were experimenting a bit

), and it had a little trouble accessing the CD-ROM drive - DIR command showed nothing (folders in the cd medium had more than 8 characters).

Everything else works pretty fine. Good work, Dex.

Regards
inflater

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:47 pm

Thanks inflater for test and report, i will try and answer some of your ?.
DexOS needs vesa2 card with LFB, if you open the startup.bat and takeout the line
gui

It should load much faster, also has you found out it only goes one layer in for dir, this can be changed with one line in the source code.
Also has you found out it only looks for the primary partion on the hdd, i can easy make it find others, but i wanted to keep it simple, when i designed DexOS.
The CD has always been a bit hit or miss as some times it loads fine, other times you need to run the commands many time, it was written many years ago, it may be time to do a rewrite on it.
Anyway thanks for your input.
Regards Dex.

suthers · Post by **suthers** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:48 pm

tested on vmware, worked well.
Nice Job (which i was as good as you...).
Jules

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:46 pm

Thanks suthers.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:49 pm

I have decide to go open source, so will release the source code for DexOS on the web site, should be up by this Monday (28th April 2008 ).

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:25 pm

I tried it out on an actual computer, and other than the complicated way of changing directories, it was exceptional! Keep up the good work.

edfed · Post by **edfed** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:26 pm

I have decide to go open source, so will release the source code for DexOS on the web site, should be up by this Monday (28th April 2008 ).

very good resolution dex.
i'm hurry to see the source, and try to customise it for my MP3 player machine...
then, tomorrow?

jerryleecooper · Post by **jerryleecooper** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:50 pm

I didnt' tewst it but good to see a new release I like dexos I didnt test it right now for few reasons, one of wich being the canadiens not having wininig the match watchebvet??? I dont know myself I should smoke???
Smoking makes smomeome a different persone whatever

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:07 am

Yer drunk Jerry?

//EDIT: Now, when I've got out of the bed, I see...

We should move his posts to some archive or something

Speaking of drunken people, hey, the championship in hockey is coming

4.may 2008: Slovakia vs. Norway at 01:15 CET! GO SLOVAKIA!!!

BTW Dex sorry for the OT

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:32 am

Dex wrote:I have decide to go open source, so will release the source code for DexOS on the web site, should be up by this Monday (28th April 2008 ).

nice. cant wait. =)