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November 2014

posted Nov 1, 2014, 5:51 PM by Dan Antohi   [ updated Mar 18, 2015, 10:52 AM]
21 November 2014

    Build 144 of the operating system improves compatibility with legacy 'Interface 1' applications but also requires new versions of the game launcher and VER.ZZP because of a change in the way hook code #43 operates.
 

14 November 2014

    The improved versions of the 'Logical Disk Copier' and 'Large Sequential Files Copier' are better suited to be launched via the 'Send To' right-click menu option. For this purpose their shortcuts need to be copied to the directory:  %USERPROFILE%\SendTo, or %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo.


09 November 2014

    The option to preserve existing data from the target SD card logical disk, by merging it with the source directory content, before the logical disk image is generated, was added to the 'Logical Disk Copier'.


04 November 2014

    The Operating System Transfer utility is a Win32 console applet which transfers the 'Interface 1bis' operating system from c:\tmp\IF!BISBA.BIN and c:\tmp\IF1BISSH.BIN to the last 64 sectors of logical disk number 1 on a SD card, from where it can be easily loaded into the interface's on-board memory, by pressing the button for 2.5 seconds.
The utility accepts as optional command line argument the SD card's Windows drive letter, for which the default value is 'S:'.

    The 'Large Sequential Files Copier' is a Win32 console utility which adds files from a specified directory of a PC to the 'Large Sequential Files' partition of a SD card. Usage instructions have been added to the Video Player specification sheet.
    The structure of the 'Large Sequential Files' partition has been documented in section 5.3.4 of the Operating System Reference manual.
    
    Version 142 of the operating system corrects the undesirable side effect of the 'Large Sequential Files' partition  being deleted when formatting logical drive number 1.



01 November 2014

    The 'Logical Disk Copier' is a Win32 console utility which copies files from specified directories of a PC to 'Interface 1bis' logical disk images created on a SD card. Usage instructions have been added to the section 4.5 of the 'Getting Started Guide'.

    The mouse and joystick user interface of the game launcher was slightly improved, which requires new versions of the operating system and microcontroller firmware.