source: trunk/BOOTCODE/SPECIAL/CHARSET.ASM@ 54

Last change on this file since 54 was 51, checked in by Ben Rietbroek, 12 years ago

AiR-BOOT v1.0.8-rc3 build-20120909 [2012-09-10]

With Git one can easily hop-skip-and-jump between branches.
So I use Git for my local repos and make use of this easy branching.
Because SVN can only handle lineair history, these branches had to be
rebased before committing them to Netlabs. So, this commit contains a
multitude of changes which makes it a bit hairy.

New

o Display LVM drive-letters in the main menu

A populair request was to show drive-letter information in the menu.
Drive-letters however, are OS specific and AiR-BOOT cannot
accurately predict what drive-letter other operating systems would
assign to what partition. eCS LVM drive-letters however are stored
in the LVM-record and can thus be displayed.

o Added 'Show LVM Drive Letters' option in SETUP/BASIC

This will toggle the display of LVM drive-letters in the main menu.
By default this option is enabled.

o Show popup message when BIOS INT13X extensions are not available

The system is halted.

o Show 'DEL to Power Off' in the bottom left corner

This tries to power-off the system, but it may not work for you.

o Simple interactive debugger

Outputs to the serial port with a few one-letter commands to dump
internal tables and state. (Only available in debug builds)

o Enhanced drive-letter feature

Enable multiple eCS installations using the same drive-letter.
This makes it possible to clone a system with the command
'XCOPY /h /o /t /s /e /r /v /e' to another drive and have that boot
from the same drive-letter.
(Or installing to the same drive by hiding the other system)

Changes

o Reduced MBR protection-image from 1024 to 768 bytes

Luckily the MBR Protection Image code does not exceed 768 bytes,
so that gives us another 256 bytes of precious code-space.
Now the non-EN versions are happy again.
Note that the alignment for the image changed from 512 to 256 bytes.
MBR-PROT.ASM, FIXCODE.C, PARTMAIN.ASM and AIR-BOOT.ASM have been
adjusted for this change.
The fight for code-space continues...

o Updating from v1.06 now also copies over drive-letters

When the user has forced drive-letters in v1.06 these will be copied
over to the v1.0.8 configuration when upgrading.
Because the drive-letter feature is broken in v1.07,
the drive-letter table does not get copied over when upgrading
from v1.07.

o Made FX-code optional to compile in

The FX-code supplies the shifting screen-effects when 'Cooper Bars'
is enabled in the setup. With the current enhancements made however,
there is a continuous lack of code-space, especially when debug-code
is included during development. The FX-code occupies some
1200 bytes, a space that can be put to better use. Therefore the
inclusion of the FX-code has been made conditional to make room for
either debugging or future new features.

o Also rewrite PBR on HPFS

Earlier, a fix was made to write a modified PBR back in case JFS was
used. This was done to enable the drive-letter feature on JFS, since
the PBR JFS-bootcode does not use the supplied PBR in memory.
With the enhancements in the drive-letter feature, the HPFS PBR
needs to be updated on disk also, to cope with zero drive-letters in
the HPFS PBR. This potentially fixes a missing drive-letter in the
PBR when the system is restored from an archive. You might need the
drive-letter feature to force the correct drive-letter on the first
boot, after which the feature can be disabled.

o Added extra MBR protection

When AiR-BOOT is active, it is only AiR-BOOT that writes to the MBR.
To protect the MBR from programming errors, like the one below,
any write to the MBR is now checked for validity.
In essence this is protecting your MBR from bad programming done
by me...

Fixes

o Fixed a minor bug with displaying LVM drive-letters

When more partitions that can be displayed were present, scrolling
the menu would not scroll the drive-letter. Fixed.

o Fixed a bug with regard to the drive-letter feature

When partitions were deleted, and some partitions above the deleted
partition(s) had a drive-letter forced, these partitions would lose
this assignment. This bug is also present in v1.06.

Note

The AIRBOOT.HIS file mentions a DOCU directory with the AiR-BOOT
documentation etc. However, this is not present in this commit and
will be provided at a later time.

File size: 3.1 KB
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1; AiR-BOOT (c) Copyright 1998-2008 M. Kiewitz
2;
3; This file is part of AiR-BOOT
4;
5; AiR-BOOT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
6; the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
7; Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
8; any later version.
9;
10; AiR-BOOT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
11; WARRANTY: without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
12; FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
13; details.
14;
15; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
16; AiR-BOOT. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
17;
18;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
19; AiR-BOOT / CHARSET SUPPORT
20;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
21
22; This file is only included, when compiling versions that are meant to
23; contain special characters that are not included in the Video ROM charset.
24
25; May destroy all-purpose registers (AX,BX,CX,DX), will preserve all others
26CHARSET_IncludeCyrillic Proc Near Uses si di bp
27 ; First we get the ROM charset from BIOS...
28 mov ax, 1130h
29 mov bh, 6 ; Get ROM VGA 25x80 charset
30 int 10h ; VIDEO BIOS: Get charset table pointer
31 mov bx, ds ; ES:BP point to charset (in Video-ROM)
32 mov ax, es
33 mov es, bx
34 mov ds, ax
35 mov si, bp ; DS:SI - ROM Font 25x80 and ES==CS
36 mov di, offset CharsetTempBuffer
37 mov cx, 2048
38 rep movsw ; Copy ROM-charset to Temp-Buffer
39 mov ds, bx ; DS==CS
40 mov si, offset CHARSET_Cyrillic
41 mov di, offset CharsetTempBuffer+2048
42
43 mov dl, 64 ; Decode 64 character bitmaps
44 xor al, al
45 xor ch, ch
46 DecodeLoop: ; This is an uncompressing-loop
47 mov ah, ds:[si]
48 inc si
49 mov cl, ah
50 and cl, 0Fh
51 rep stosb ; Write NULs, count: lower 4 bits
52 mov cl, ah
53 shr cl, 4
54 or cl, cl
55 jz EndOfStream
56 rep movsb
57 jmp DecodeLoop
58 EndOfStream:
59 cmp di, offset CharsetTempBuffer+3840
60 jae DecodeDone
61 add di, 768 ; Skip 3x16 char blocks
62 jmp DecodeLoop
63 DecodeDone:
64 IFDEF FX_ENABLED
65 call FX_WaitRetrace ; Wait for retrace to reduce flickering
66 ENDIF
67 mov ax, 1110h
68 mov bh, 16
69 xor bl, bl
70 mov cx, 0FFh
71 xor dx, dx
72 mov bp, offset CharsetTempBuffer ; ES:BP - New charset
73 int 10h ; VIDEO BIOS: Set new charset table
74 mov ah, 12h
75 mov bl, 30h
76 mov al, 2 ; 400 ScanLines
77 int 10h ; VIDEO BIOS: Set Scanlines
78 ret
79CHARSET_IncludeCyrillic EndP
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