What's new in MikeOS 4.5
Feb 6, 2015
- New program: Forth interpreter (FORTH.BIN) from Walt Nagel; source code is programs/forth.asm
- New program: Mega Archiver (ARCHIVE.BAS) from Joshua Beck
- New game: FISHER.BIN from Jasper Ziller
- Updated MikeBASIC Plus Plus (MBPP.BAS) to version 3.2.3
- Updated Memory Manipulator (MEMEDIT.BAS) to 3.1.1
- Updated Calculator (CALC.BAS) to version 2.0.1
- Updated Cosmic Flight (CF.BAS) to 2.0.2
- Updated ASCII Artist (DRAW.BAS) to 3.0.1
- Updated KEYBOARD.BIN with accidentals (from Robert Looney)
- Updated build-openbsd.sh (from Takayoshi Sasano)
- Updated build-osx.sh (from Caleb Xu)
- Fix: always show cursor when returning from BASIC in EDIT.BIN
- source/features/basic.asm: do_cls: change "int 10" to "int 10h"
- Changed "kigalo" to "kigali" in HANGMAN.BAS
- Changed "bueno saires" to "buenos aires" in HANGMAN.BAS
- Changed "qemu" to "qemu-system-i386" in test-linux.sh
- Updated URL for Windows QEMU in doc/handbook-sysdev.html
- Handbook fixes
New in MikeOS 4.4 (Nov 13, 2013)
- Two new games, Sudoku and Cosmic Flight, have been added.
- Many improvements have been made to the BASIC interpreter, which now also shows line numbers in error messages.
- The Calculator program and MikeBASIC Plus Plus library have been updated to the latest versions.
New in MikeOS 4.3.1 (Apr 28, 2012)
- A number of small bugs were fixed in the BASIC interpreter, MB++ library, and ASCII Artist programs.
New in MikeOS 4.3 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Lots of new instructions in the BASIC interpreter, plus new programs and other changes. See the mailing list for all the details.
New in MikeOS 4.2 (Oct 3, 2011)
- New BASIC programs including a memory editor, calculator, and ASCII art designer have been included.
- The text editor has been enhanced with new features, while file management commands have been added to the command line interface.
- Programs can also retrieve the command line string, if one was provided.
New in MikeOS 4.1.2 (Jul 19, 2011)
- The build scripts now disable auto-optimization in newer versions of NASM, which caused problems.
New in MikeOS 4.1.1 (Jan 21, 2011)
- The list dialog is now scrollable, while the pause system call has been rewritten to be compatible with more BIOSes.
- There have also been several small bugfixes and documentation updates.
New in MikeOS 4.1 (Jan 20, 2010)
- New port routines, new commands in BASIC, better random number generation, and more.
New in MikeOS 3.3 (Feb 21, 2009)
- A new full-screen text editor was added, while the command line interface can output text files using 'cat'.
- The music keyboard interface was updated, and small updates were made to the disk driver API.
New in MikeOS 3.2 (Jan 26, 2009)
- New system calls were added to convert signed integers to strings and reverse strings.
- The disk driver calls no longer need FAT12-style filenames, as they do the conversion internally.
- The OpenBSD build script was updated.
New in MikeOS 3.1 (Jan 9, 2009)
- A hangman game and text file viewer were added, and the file manager can now display file sizes.
- Two new system calls were also included, and a few small bugs have been fixed.
New in MikeOS 3.0 (Dec 21, 2008)
- Major code cleanup; DOS and mouse support removed (to be continued in TomOS); better documentation and comments; new system calls.
New in MikeOS 2.0.0 (Oct 17, 2008)
- This release includes FAT12 file writing support, a new mouse driver, a C library, and new system calls.
- Additionally, many bugfixes and documentation updates were made.