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[dodogildo]

Now I'm trying FutureOS with RSF3. Installed all four ROMS and FutureOS is working but not seeing RSF3's mass storage (USB stick). Any idea?
EDIT: I forgot to mention RSF3 is on M4 mode. (Rom6:M4, Rom10-13:FutureOS)

[dodogildo]

Oops my bad. I didn't realize there was a special FutureOS rombank distribution for RSF3 sorry. Now it's all working fine. 

[GUNHED]

Now I'm trying FutureOS with RSF3. Installed all four ROMS and FutureOS is working but not seeing RSF3's mass storage (USB stick). Any idea?
EDIT: I forgot to mention RSF3 is on M4 mode. (Rom6:M4, Rom10-13:FutureOS)

Well, sadly the SF3 doesn't quite emulate the M4 SD-card file support that will.
It fails at:
- Read directory entry
- Calculate file size
- few others...

But the creators of the SF3 work on that, as at on many other topics.

Just hope to see it working sometime this year. 


@Everybody: Please update FutureTex, important bug fixes and more.

[dodogildo]

@GUNHED would you consider adding a "MOVE" function to the file manager? 

[GUNHED]

@GUNHED would you consider adding a "MOVE" function to the file manager? 

Yes, I can do that of course. Will put in on the 2 DO list. But can take a while. Actually it's planned to overwork the ROM M in some months anyway. Stuff like adding hot-keys etc...

Meanwhile you can do it this way:
- Tag all the files you want to move (no other files please)
- Use the copy function to "move" them to the target
- Press ESC to come to the Desktop, then press "a" for "again". Now all used files will be tagged again
- Eventually press "h" to be back in the file-manager 

[GUNHED]

BTW: Here is a picture of the M4 Shell, just to see what we're talking about... 

[GUNHED]

Enhanced RAM Banking... 

To be able to support up to 4-8 MB of RAM (4 MB is what you can buy today!) the OS has been slightly adapted...

This will be part of the next release and makes things more save when working with extension RAM banks like &78xx, &79xx, &7Axx and &7Bxx. 

The old way of (f.e.): LD BC,&79C6:OUT (C),C

Will be replaced by: LD BC,&79FF:LD A,&C6:OUT (C),A

This is important for future hardware expansions and also for not-fully-decoding extensions of he current days.

FutureOS 2025 will come ... 


And to tell it in the words of another German OS developer: "It seems, that this is the first OS for real machines with all these features?"