[mikeos-developer] MikeOS 3.1 released

[M Saunders]

Hi all,

Main changes in this release are a new game (HANGMAN.BIN), renaming of
PCXVIEW to VIEWER because you can now view text files with it, file
size information in FILEMAN, and a couple of new system calls. Full
changelog below.

Get it from: http://prdownload.berlios.de/mikeos/mikeos-3.1.zip

I'll update the site with handbooks and screenshots later on. Enjoy
the hangman game if you want to test your geography knowledge :-)

Cheers,
Mike


# HANGMAN game added, in which the player works out names of cities

# PCXVIEW program renamed to VIEWER, and can display text files as
well as images

# FILEMAN program now has an option to show a file's size

# New system call: os_string_charchange (source/features/string.asm),
switches all instances of a specified char to a different one

# New system call: os_get_random (source/features/math.asm), generates
integer between 0 and 255 using the BIOS clock

# API bumped to version 9

# os_draw_block routine (source/features/screen.asm) now available to
user programs

# When a program is called from the app selector, there's no longer a
key press prompt after the program has finished

# os_dialog_box uses coloured blocks to denote highlighted button
instead of '[=' characters

# os_string_strip now uses its own buffer (not the OS disk buffer)

# Keyboard codes (eg KEY_ESC) and more colours added to programs/mikedev.inc

# os_get_file_size system call fixed

# Registers AX, BX, CX, DX, SI, DI cleared to zero before program
execution to ease debugging

# MONITOR program has better help text at the start

# build-win.bat renamed buildwin.bat (more suitable in DOS)

# Build scripts copy README.TXT to the floppy image, for reading in
the new VIEWER program


-- 
Mike Saunders
http://okachi.googlepages.com