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15 years of lDebug hg repo
As of today, the oldest revision in the lDebug repo is exactly 15 years old. Here's to 15 more years!
Anonymous sign in now required for the hgweb server
As discovered by Andrew Bird on the 2017 iniload review post, our hgweb server now requires a sign in.
Looking back at 2017's iniload
The very first revision of iniload was checked into the repo on 2017-10-03 (the annual Tag der deutschen Einheit "day of german unity", a public holiday).
It only supported MS-DOS v6 / IBM-DOS, MS-DOS v7, and lDOS load (all the ones requiring subsequent loading by the "msload" stage). The latter, lDOS load, still without the "lDXX" signature. (The signature was added on 2020-01-22 and first checked the same day in boot.asm and likewise in boot32.asm and by lDebug's loader. The signature was first set, to "lDeb" or "lDDb", for lDebug again the same day.) So loading it with boot protocol ldos in recent lDebug requires specifying checkvalue=0.
Early October updates
2025-10-12
