ANN: UnoDOS 3 beta 2

[aowen]

https://zx.itch.io/unodos3

* All file handling is now done via external commands:
* Files are headerless for easy use with PC tools without having to generate headers/checksums.
* Supported file formats are: tokenized BASIC, binary, .SCR (6912 bytes or 6976 bytes for ULAplus screens), DATA (variables/arrays)
* COLOR command sends ULAplus register/data pairs.
* Includes example ULAplus slideshow.
* BASIC, UnoDOS, and ZX-Uno API docs included.

[aldelgado]

https://zx.itch.io/unodos3

* All file handling is now done via external commands:
* Files are headerless for easy use with PC tools without having to generate headers/checksums.
* Supported file formats are: tokenized BASIC, binary, .SCR (6912 bytes or 6976 bytes for ULAplus screens), DATA (variables/arrays)
* COLOR command sends ULAplus register/data pairs.
* Includes example ULAplus slideshow.
* BASIC, UnoDOS, and ZX-Uno API docs included.

Nice job !

Enviado desde mi SM-J510FN mediante Tapatalk

[azesmbog]

I tried to work.
TRD - loaded, running
SNA - loaded, running
TAP - loaded, running
example ULAplus slideshow - loaded, running.
Thank you

[aowen]

I tried to work.
TRD - loaded, running
SNA - loaded, running
TAP - loaded, running
example ULAplus slideshow - loaded, running.
Thank you

Thanks for testing. It looks like everything is working as it should.
I have a number of features I want to add for Beta 3, but the main things on my list are:

1) Better syntax handling for external commands.
2) Add the missing entries to the help system.
3) Make it easy to port programs written for the microdrive.
4) Support for random file access from BASIC.
5) Conversion tools for turning .BAS files into .TXT files and vice versa.
6) An application package format.
7) Embedded common routines from the external commands in the OS core.
8) Game browser front end.

But I'm open to other suggestions (except LFN).

[azesmbog]

5) Conversion tools for turning .BAS files into .TXT files and vice versa.

Yes, it would be interesting.
Support .SCL-file?
Support dsk for SamCoupe, or is it really impossible?

[aowen]

5) Conversion tools for turning .BAS files into .TXT files and vice versa.

Yes, it would be interesting.
Support .SCL-file?
Support dsk for SamCoupe, or is it really impossible?

In theory it's possible to support other virtual formats than .TAP and .TRD, but TR-DOS support is not part of UnoDOS (it's the same third-party emulator that ships with esxDOS). The best suggestion I have is to use the fuse-utils utility scl2trd to convert SCL files to .TRD for use.

[BCH]

I would love the ability to autoexec a file at startup

[kgmcneil]

Yay!... Its got erase and del commands!... No more pulling the SD card out just to erase stuff for me (don't know why my existing esxDOS setup didn't come with that?...)...

On an unrelated note, I see that your also doing .PLAY on your https://zx.itch.io/play webpage there, as an external dot command... Im assuming that its similar to your previous project using print channels for Play commands, that you released a while back?... Out of curiosity, any chance in the future for this .PLAY command to do all 6 AY channels over the default 128k 3?... It would be a nice ZX-Uno addition... Also, (although I realize that there is nowhere for a ZX-Uno to port midi out data to), but could this new .PLAY command in theory be used for Midi work?...

Regards!

[mcleod_ideafix]

Yay!... Its got erase and del commands!... No more pulling the SD card out just to erase stuff for me (don't know why my existing esxDOS setup didn't come with that?...)...

Because you can do it by using the standard ERASE keyword in your Spectrum (EXT MODE, SYMBOL+7) and putting the file name to erase between quotes

[kgmcneil]

"Because you can do it by using the standard ERASE keyword in your Spectrum (EXT MODE, SYMBOL+7) and putting the file name to erase between quotes"

Jez?!?!?... Really?!?!?!?...

Ahhhh!!!... I feel like a real idiot now!!!... Thanks (I think) for that mcleod_ideafix !!!!

Not strictly SD card related but didn't the original come with a third party SPEAK command of sorts.. Would love to see an improvement on that, for something that sounds more like English... Anyhow... Otherwise Im well impressed to see that aowen is doing for DOS what he did with the ROM, in making it Open sourced...

...I still feel like a bit of an idiot ...