I'm close to release an updated release of Atari++, the portable Atari emulator. This will be in some sense a minor update as the emulator core will not change, though Os++ will (minor), and I will include a "System Disk" with additional utilities in place.
I'm attaching a couple of screen shots on what is coming.
- A "CONFIG.SYS" file will be included that releases additional memory to BASIC and Oss switching carts. All disk buffers will then be relocated, taking only 256 bytes of memory for Dos.
- An updated version of the Antic "DiskIO" basic extension will also be included (see screen shot). This is a unique extension for Basic and Mac/65 that adds disk-specific extensions, for example a sorted directory dump and commands to load, save and modify files on disk.
- In addition to the built-in command line processor of Dos 2.++, a menu driven DUP menu will be included as well (see screen shot). The DUP menu is unique in so far as you can configure it yourself, i.e. which features you want to have included. Command items can be "pulled out" of the main menu to save memory space, for example to copy a disk or files.
All this stuff is actually more than 20 years old, but has now been ported to the ROM based infrastructure of Dos 2.++, so it is probably still useful for the community as I never released this before.
Anyhow, anyone willing to help me to beta-test this, please let me know. Note that this requires the ROM-based Dos 2.++. It will (likely) not work with any other Dos.
Greetings,
Thomas
I'm attaching a couple of screen shots on what is coming.
- A "CONFIG.SYS" file will be included that releases additional memory to BASIC and Oss switching carts. All disk buffers will then be relocated, taking only 256 bytes of memory for Dos.
- An updated version of the Antic "DiskIO" basic extension will also be included (see screen shot). This is a unique extension for Basic and Mac/65 that adds disk-specific extensions, for example a sorted directory dump and commands to load, save and modify files on disk.
- In addition to the built-in command line processor of Dos 2.++, a menu driven DUP menu will be included as well (see screen shot). The DUP menu is unique in so far as you can configure it yourself, i.e. which features you want to have included. Command items can be "pulled out" of the main menu to save memory space, for example to copy a disk or files.
All this stuff is actually more than 20 years old, but has now been ported to the ROM based infrastructure of Dos 2.++, so it is probably still useful for the community as I never released this before.
Anyhow, anyone willing to help me to beta-test this, please let me know. Note that this requires the ROM-based Dos 2.++. It will (likely) not work with any other Dos.
Greetings,
Thomas
