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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
Setting up FreePascal (FPC) for i8086 DOS target
I recently tried setting up the toolchain for building LZEXE on the amd64 Debian Linux desktop.
No blog post to be added in early October
Due to personal circumstances the next weekend will not see me prepare a blog post.