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[drac030]

Hello

SpartaDOS X 4.45 is now officially available on http://sdx.atari8.info/index.php (or http://spartados.com and http://spartadosx.com - these addresses, being for now aliases only, are recommended as being easier to remember).

It is this year's third edition, so the changes are not so many as in the transition from 4.42 to 4.43. We recommend upgrade anyways. A brief list of changes is available here: http://sdx.atari8.in...45/whatsnew.txt

As usual, we'd like to express thanks and appreciations to the work GoodByteXL is doing, who is restlessly working on the biggest part of the documentation (i.e. the User's Manual and online MAN help).

We are also happy to announce that a new coder has joined us in improving the SpartaDOS X, namely Mono/Tristesse, who is (among other things) responsible for the most fancy functionality of this SDX' edition: namely the filename completion (implemented in DOSKEY.SYS, 128k RAM or more is required to run this).

Some programs have been moved to the Toolkit disk. Please review the whatsnew.txt file carefully to know which they are, and, when they are necessary for you. please use the SDX Imager program to customize your cartridge image before flashing it into ROM.

Have fun
KMK/DLT

Edited by drac030, Fri Nov 4, 2011 3:38 PM.

[spookt]

Thanks! SpartaDOS is IMHO one of the things which makes the A8 experience great to this day!

[flashjazzcat]

Seconded!

[Stephen]

Thanks to everyone involved on the project!

[rdea6]

drac030, on Fri Nov 4, 2011 3:36 PM, said:

Hello

SpartaDOS X 4.45 is now officially available on http://sdx.atari8.info/index.php (or http://spartados.com and http://spartadosx.com - these addresses, being for now aliases only, are recommended as being easier to remember).

It is this year's third edition, so the changes are not so many as in the transition from 4.42 to 4.43. We recommend upgrade anyways. A brief list of changes is available here: http://sdx.atari8.in...45/whatsnew.txt

Have fun
KMK/DLT

I have not been able to find one that will upgrade the Side cartridge yet. Is this cartridge required to have something different.

And I want to thank everyone involved also......... great work.

[flashjazzcat]

rdea6, on Sat Nov 5, 2011 12:50 PM, said:

I have not been able to find one that will upgrade the Side cartridge yet. Is this cartridge required to have something different.

Yes - that'll be me then. I'll get this uploaded ASAP - been buggering about with hardware problems all day.

[bf2k+]

Many thanks!!

[Jacques]

Can't wait to update my SIDE with the latest SDX v. 4.45

[flashjazzcat]

Jacques, on Sun Nov 6, 2011 8:18 AM, said:

Can't wait to update my SIDE with the latest SDX v. 4.45

Shouldn't be long now - circumstances have been completely against me.

[orpheuswaking]

Can't wait to update my SIDE with the latest SDX v. 4.45, Oh wait... I need to get my SIDE first

[flashjazzcat]

orpheuswaking, on Sun Nov 6, 2011 10:15 AM, said:

Can't wait to update my SIDE with the latest SDX v. 4.45, Oh wait... I need to get my SIDE first

Heh... well you do that and the new driver should be ready by then.

[orpheuswaking]

flashjazzcat, on Sun Nov 6, 2011 10:22 AM, said:

orpheuswaking, on Sun Nov 6, 2011 10:15 AM, said:

Can't wait to update my SIDE with the latest SDX v. 4.45, Oh wait... I need to get my SIDE first

Heh... well you do that and the new driver should be ready by then.

Waiting by the mail box in my tent for the fabled SIDE to arrive.

[flashjazzcat]

Taking the opportunity to fix a few bugs here and implement some unfinished functionality in the APT software - deadline is 19:30 GMT since my wife wants to go see a firework display this evening.

[orpheuswaking]

Guy Fawkes night was last night... Tell her she missed out!

[flashjazzcat]

The local council always puts on a display on the nearest Sunday.

[flashjazzcat]

Sorry - no SIDE update today. Just flashed the one I was preparing for testing and it screwed my cart. Xilinx programmer is also kaput, so I give up for the moment.

[flashjazzcat]

SDX 4.45 image is locking up my pre-production cart for reasons unknown: I'll upload drivers tomorrow once I'm satisfied there isn't something serious amiss.

[Jacques]

Okay, fingers crossed

[flashjazzcat]

All finished here - just waiting for non-booting image issue to be fixed.

[Jacques]

Non-booting image issue? Is it something related to SIDE hardware or sth else?

[flashjazzcat]

Jacques, on Mon Nov 7, 2011 12:20 PM, said:

Non-booting image issue? Is it something related to SIDE hardware or sth else?

Confined to my pre-production cart without side-mounted switch, I think. Working on it now...

[orpheuswaking]

Bloody cold in this tent!

[Guitarman]

orpheuswaking, on Mon Nov 7, 2011 3:10 PM, said:

Bloody cold in this tent!

[rdea6]

drac030, on Fri Nov 4, 2011 3:36 PM, said:

Hello

Some programs have been moved to the Toolkit disk. Please review the whatsnew.txt file carefully to know which they are, and, when they are necessary for you. please use the SDX Imager program to customize your cartridge image before flashing it into ROM.

Have fun
KMK/DLT

This is my version of manpages.arc for SDX4xx. couldn't upload an arc file so I added manpages.arc.zip to file. Just rename to manpages.arc.

-->  MANPAGES.ARC.ZIP   71.26K   48 downloads

compiled with The Last Word 3.21b using a word wrap macro with minimal reformating of text. But is does seem to work well with the SET PAGER=TYPE ;%;/P

[drac030]

rdea6, on Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:53 AM, said:

This is my version of manpages.arc for SDX4xx. couldn't upload an arc file so I added manpages.arc.zip to file. Just rename to manpages.arc.

--> MANPAGES.ARC.ZIP

compiled with The Last Word 3.21b using a word wrap macro with minimal reformating of text.

Thanks for sharing. Could you briefly describe, what did you change?

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But is does seem to work well with the SET PAGER=TYPE ;%;/P

Why not SET PAGER=LESS ?