Table of Contents
lDebug /E, inicomp review and a change
2022-11-19
This week I added another switch to lDebug to support using it for offline patching of iniload files (such as the debugger's own executable), even if the file exceeds 64 KiB.
lDOS boot work continues
2022-11-13
The optimisations of ldosboot continue, although I previously considered it impossible to optimise further.
lDebug: BOOTUNITFLx flag 2 to force using BPB geometry
After having found that some pcjs.org machines report wrong CHS geometries on function 13.08, I prepared a flag that can be set in lDebug's BOOTUNITFLx variables to force falling back to the geometry noted in a unit's BPB. (For now this blindly assumes that the unit starts with a boot sector with BPB, even if the unit is actually >= 80h and partitioned with an MBR.)
lCDebug image for use with pcjs.org
It isn't the latest and greatest, but in August I uploaded an lCDebug diskette image to our server with the prerequisite .htaccess file to allow pcjs.org to access it. The file is at https://pushbx.org/ecm/test/20220819/bcdebug.img
Link spam
Here's some links I happened to have lying around. This may become a regular type of contribution to this blog.
