Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:05:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: nwcdex In-Reply-To: <196C3684651@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins) Latent-time: +2:00r MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Matthias Paul wrote: > I'm currently thinking about adding a new pre-scanning of CONFIG.SYS > to cope with some of MS-DOS' features. This would relax the problem > with SWITCHES=. For backward compatibility, to disable the > pre-scanning to become effective, a new SWITCHES=/P could be > introduced... ;-) I have just recently fixed the bug in the IBMBIOS sources which caused COD to fail to load from hard drive other than C: If you look at the init.asm file, search the "floppy_boot:" string - right before that label there's an instruction: mov al, 2 which is what causes COD to boot from C: only. It's enough to replace this sequence with two 'nop's: nop nop then COD will boot from whichever physical drive. Note: I HAVEN'T TESTED IT - my 2nd drive is Linux and I have no space left to install DOS on it! > PS: For those waiting for my IBMBIO.COM update: It will come as > soon as I have finished tiding up the sources. However, I'm > permanently inventing new features, so this may take some more > time... I'm thinking about making a *binary* alpha version > available via my web-pages within the next days, reflecting the > current status of the file. Hope to receive all your comments > and bug-reports... You can count on me. I have also several ideas about the startup code (mainly adding more flexible menu support, several screen related commands to set the screen resolution other than 80x25 - similar to the SVGATextMode utility on Linux)