Bernd Böckmann

Results 48 issues of Bernd Böckmann

This is in contrast to MS-DOS and FreeDOS, where the hidden sectors are relative to the container (Disk or extended partition start). EDR uses the BPB_HIDDEN internally to do the...

compatibility

country.sys has support for giving the currency for a given country / codepage combination. It currently does not contain support for EUR. My proposal is to implement EUR as a...

enhancement

It takes very long to run on a 8088 with 640k of RAM. So long that I had the feeling the system hang. Should be investigated what causes this slowness.

question

The kernel counts the FAT area as data sectors while calculating the FAT size, leading to a sub-optimal FAT size.

enhancement

This is contrary to MS-DOS, which only returns a FAT-32 BPB if subfunction 4860h is used. 0860h ALWAYS returns a FAT-16 BPB.

compatibility

When the kernel runs on a system without floppy drives, the first hard drive is still C:. So drives A: and B: are some kind of "dummy" drives. In the...

bug
compatibility