Readme to Helium-OS 0.01.6

( Introduction to helium-OS 0.01.6 )___________________________________________
 | This Article talks about changes in helium-OS 0.01.6                        |
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This version of helium is the last planed release of the 512b series. Helium is
not moving on to become a real operating system kernel. I may decide to release
another with bug fixes or maybe a small treat in the future. But for now the
512byte version has served its purpos and has also taught me more than I ever
expected!

With this release of helium all known bugs are fixed and it should run perfectly
fine on practicly any computer with an intel 386 based processer. There are also
30bytes of free space that can be used before the OS reaches its 510 byte limmit
so a few little tricks can be sqeezed in there by anyone that knows what there
doing.

In this release I have also changed helium to print green 0's and 1's as I was
getting sick of gray A's and B's. If my eyes could have puked they would have!
If you wish you may change it back to printing gray A's and B's for what ever
reseon you may want to do that???

Have fun and happy hacking!

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Cheers! Coty Miller

( Installing to a pen drive! )_________________________________________________
 | This Article describes how to install helium to a pendrive!                 |
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So, you want to install helium to a pen drive? Well no worries it is easy! You
will need somethings though! 

   1) A copy of windows
   2) Helium-OS floppy image or "boot.img"
   3) This tool; http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/

Simply download the tool and run it, place the helium image on the desktop, insert
your pen drive. Now select your pen drive from the list on the left and click 
"Restore". Next selct the helium image "boot.img". Now the USB image tool may ask
you to confirm. Congrats! You have written the image to your pen drive! Now just 
boot and run!

/!\ NOTE! Doing this will wipe out all data on your pen drive! Use at own risk!

PS: If you have Linux, you can use 'dd' to copy the image to a pen drive, I've
    done this many times, it is very easy! However, I sugjest you read about
    the dd and fdisk commands! If your not careful you may overwrite your HDD's
    boot sector, and that wouldn't be good! 

( Contact information )________________________________________________________
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Coty Miller                            -- compcoty (at) gmail [dot] com

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