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xyz1 wrote:Octavio do you plan to write some small documentation, about octasm?
The small documentation is written (\docs\readme.txt and \docs\develop.txt),the big documentation is planed but not a priority.
If you are interested fel free to ask.
Now i´m very busy for system programming but have ported a small invaders game clone that can be downloaded on my web.
Octa OS v0.201 is ready.
new features:
usb driver (uhci) and usb mass storage driver.
there is no boot sector for usb disks but it shoud boot with a floppy image
or booting DOS first and then using 'load.com'
i have update the file octasm.txt to explain the changes done in
octa-assembler for Octa OS
copy - paste now can copy directories too.
Because mi web is not available y post here http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=56558#56558
a bootable floppy disk image
you need to login to be able to do wnload files.
It loads and begins, but then MENU.ASM says it has a 138 error, with value out of range. Then it jumps to the error above with something to the effect of: "Please press a key to restart."
It loads and begins, but then MENU.ASM says it has a 138 error, with value out of range. Then it jumps to the error above with something to the effect of: "Please press a key to restart."
Try on a real computer, i have no experience wich bochs, i tried it but it crashed at the begining, some older versions worked with bochs but is unusable.
Also check the md5 of the image file:
7c0420a1fa80504504bfa06be609708b
My web page is not available anymore ,until i found some free hosting.
I have updated my page,octa os v206 now can be installed on a fat16 partition
and the fview program can scroll big images,also the background image was limited to jpg format ,now it can be a bmp,pcx,png,jpg,gif
It also works in bochs with default settings.
I have updated my page
octa os v209 news:
hd dma driver
chkdsk & undelete disk tools
now minimum requirements are 4MB ram and 80486 cpu
corrected a lot of bugs
octavio wrote:Try on a real computer, i have no experience wich bochs, i tried it but it crashed at the begining, some older versions worked with bochs but is unusable.
i test your OS, it runs on a real pc, but under VMWare it does not start.
btw, when the OS menu disappears, how it shows up again ?
Jef wrote:
btw, when the OS menu disappears, how it shows up again ?
pressing the mouse midle boutton or the menu key on the keyboard,betwen 'alt' and 'ctrl' keys,read the files in the 'docs' directorie.
Also at the begining you can select the 'help' option.
About vmware ,if you find what is the problem then i can correct it.
On my page it says that it runs on a 486DX but the oldest machine i have
tested is a pentium.
Jef wrote:
btw, when the OS menu disappears, how it shows up again ?
pressing the mouse midle boutton or the menu key on the keyboard,betwen 'alt' and 'ctrl' keys,read the files in the 'docs' directorie.
Also at the begining you can select the 'help' option.
About vmware ,if you find what is the problem then i can correct it.
On my page it says that it runs on a 486DX but the oldest machine i have
tested is a pentium.
my pc is Intel Dual Core @ 2 GHz
I dont know the problem for VMWare. After it turn to GUI, it shows a green line a the top of the screen and then stops. (see the attached photo. Is the to 80 pixels of the screen)
If there is an option to print out a debug log while booting, tell me to test it.
Jef wrote:
If there is an option to print out a debug log while booting, tell me to test it.
If the system hangs it will be unable to write any file to disk.
check with the atached file, it replaces the file init.asm on the floppy disk
image. Now the system will just use mode 13h 320*200*8bpp just to know
if the problem is with videomodes detection.
if this do not works press shift+esc keys to exit if the system reboots this means that a log file can be written since the Os still works (but without graphics).
Tried to install vmware on my ubuntu system but i got a message that says it can not be installed on my machine
Jef wrote:
If there is an option to print out a debug log while booting, tell me to test it.
If the system hangs it will be unable to write any file to disk.
check with the atached file, it replaces the file init.asm on the floppy disk
image. Now the system will just use mode 13h 320*200*8bpp just to know
if the problem is with videomodes detection.
if this do not works press shift+esc keys to exit if the system reboots this means that a log file can be written since the Os still works (but without graphics).
Tried to install vmware on my ubuntu system but i got a message that says it can not be installed on my machine
i say print out (i mean print at the screen). not to write the log.
look at the screenshot to see the result (not running)
Jef wrote:
i say print out (i mean print at the screen). not to write the log.
look at the screenshot to see the result (not running)
why i see v0.199 on the image, aren't you testing the latest
version 0.209?
on the file octa.inc there is this instruction
'define test_mode 0'
change it to 'define test_mode 1' and assemble the file kernel.asm,you can use octasm for dos (works with dosbox) or octaos in a real machine.
this will make the system to boot slowly showing info about what it is doing.
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