[Coco] upcoming NitrOS-9 release

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 16:53:33 EST 2016


Hello all NitrOS-9 developers and fans,

A number of fixes and new features have trickled into NitrOS-9 since
the last 3.3.0 release, and I would like to prepare for 3.3.1 soon.

>From the changelog file in the repo:

- Level 1 6309 support (Robert Gault, Tormod Volden)
- Native CoCoSDC boot module (Darren Atkinson)
- sdir and sdrive tools for CoCoSDC (Tim Lindner)
- rbsuper descriptor fix (Christopher Hawks)
- cobbler: fragmented OS9Boot support (Robert Gault)
- Deblocking IDE driver (David Ladd)
- Optional timeout for Becker port (David Ladd)
- brainfuck interpreter (Boisy Pitre)
- grfdrv line drawing improvements (Robert Gault)
- sierra text rectangle fix (Guillaume Major)
- Build with lwtools 4.12 (William Astle)
- Various build/makefile cleanups (Gene Heskett, Tormod Volden)

(please let me know if something significant is missing or wrong in
the changelog)

There are a couple of issues in the bug and feature trackers at
https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/bugs/ targeted for 3.3.1.

If you have any small fixes that should be included, let me know. At
this point no new features or larger changes should be committed
before 3.3.1 has been released. Note it might take some weeks before
this will happen.

Best regards,
Tormod


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