I've kept the case insensivity as I like e.g. to have "setup", "setUP", "SETUP" or "Setup" the same command.
) It's a little annoying to have to "hunt" for certain keys that are different on US/UK keyboards. Other than that, all I can say is that I really like the setup utility that you have written. One suggestion for the high-res text mode though; try changing the dot-clock to 8 instead of 9. It causes the letters to be a little less squished (and therefore more readable).
Thanks, but if you ran it under MS Virtual PC, it has a completely different palette than on a Bochs/rHW.AJ wrote:I like the spiral application particularly.
Glad you got it working. MS VPC is one hell of a emulator...AJ wrote:If I switch to the real mode driver, no problems, though.
Sorry, I don't use much the English keyboards due to switched Z with Y and impossibility to write some language-specific characters.. Added the US back again.Stevo14 wrote:If I was going to complain about anything, it would be that you removed support for US keyboards.
I don't know exactly whats the "9/8 dot mode" set after booting Derrick, but it seems to be on 9 in 80x25, and switching to 8 makes it squished. You may experiment with this in Debug functions - vga clocking mode options from now on.Stevo14 wrote:try changing the dot-clock to 8
They're pretty old series, but simple and interesting... and usually with a simple end which is funny sometimes 
Why you don't like the series?)Well, the dot clock tells the vga card how wide, in pixels, a character is. By default, in most text modes, the dot-clock is 9(nine pixel wide characters). For 80x25 this is fine but in 80x50 the letters become too "flat" (in my opinion) so I suggested doing as I have done in my OS and set the dot clock to 8 for 80x50 text mode, making the characters less wide, and making them closer to the "normal" dimensions.inflater wrote:I don't know exactly whats the "9/8 dot mode" set after booting Derrick, but it seems to be on 9 in 80x25, and switching to 8 makes it squished. You may experiment with this in Debug functions - vga clocking mode options from now on.Stevo14 wrote:try changing the dot-clock to 8
Thanks for clarification. When I selected "8 dots per character, normal clocks" in 80x25 the characters did squish a little (as in DosBox or in as your second screenshot), reverting them to 9 they became again normal (as in your first screenshot).Stevo14 wrote:By default, in most text modes, the dot-clock is 9(nine pixel wide characters).
Hmm... There were bugs in mode switching routines at the latest release, when you selected 8 dot and 80x50 you've got no signal on screen. Plus, when you ran SPIRAL with different dot-clock or font, it was reset to 9dot, 80x25 and normal font upon exit, regardless of your config.I tried the debug functions for this and they seemed not to work, in fact they made the characters wider instead of thiner.
) ... and fixed the bug when you have set a custom font, then set mode 80x50 (which will set its implicit 8x8 font, and its normal) and then after entering SETUP utility you would get the default font. I've fixed it to load your previous 80x25 font (instead of the default), since the SETUP utility can't operate in 80x50 
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)that is Bad, hope you will get some timeinflater
..no time even to do coding
Its in my keyboard driver. The HLT instruction causes the CPU to stop until a interrupt has been received, then the CPU doesn't run on 100% everytime. Strange anyways, what version of Bochs do you have? I have 2.3.7 and it runs smooth, even Virtual PC doesn't complain on this one...kmtdk wrote:why do you use loop with hlt in ?
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I wish I could add more texSolar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
I'll fix these things in upcoming 0.0.2 someday. Or should I increase the version number? 
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