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Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 06 Dec 2016, 22:56

The exFAT12 floppy disk.

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06 Dec 2016, 22:56

ford

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ford 07 Dec 2016, 01:30

Why do you call it exFAT12?

Is it exFAT or is it FAT12?

07 Dec 2016, 01:30

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 10:33

ford wrote:

Why do you call it exFAT12?
Is it exFAT or is it FAT12?

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07 Dec 2016, 10:33

revolution
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revolution 07 Dec 2016, 10:45

Mike Gonta wrote:

... floppy disks (who cares?!) ...

I wonder if anyone still has working set of FDD and disk(s)? If so, it would be rare. And as time passes they will all eventually die.

07 Dec 2016, 10:45

Trinitek

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Trinitek 07 Dec 2016, 11:20

revolution wrote:

I wonder if anyone still has working set of FDD and disk(s)? If so, it would be rare. And as time passes they will all eventually die.

They're not that rare. There's plenty of new-old stock to go around if you need new diskettes or drives.

07 Dec 2016, 11:20

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 11:35

revolution wrote:

Mike Gonta wrote:
... floppy disks (who cares?!) ...
I wonder if anyone still has working set of FDD and disk(s)? If so, it would be rare. And as time passes they will all eventually die.

Who cares?!
As time passes we all will eventually die anyways.
I recently purchased a new USB floppy disk drive (on eBay for U$9.00 and free shipping) for testing on a couple
of PC's that don't have one (the old XP box that I currently use does have one). Even though floppy disks are
no longer manufactured new ones can still be purchased (for who knows how long) at floppydisk.com.
The 1.44MB floppy disk image (for beginner/hobby OS development) is perfect
for emulation and can easily be transferred to a USB flash drive for boot and run.

The interesting thing that I discovered with the USB floppy drive testing is that (even on the PC that booted with
drive identifier = 0) because the bootable connection to the PC is USB the INT 0x13 extended drive functions (not
normally available when booting the same floppy disk with an on board FDD) worked just fine.

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07 Dec 2016, 11:35

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 11:47

ford wrote:

Why do you call it exFAT12?

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07 Dec 2016, 11:47

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 11:53

Trinitek wrote:

... if you need new diskettes or drives.

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07 Dec 2016, 11:53

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 14:50

exFAT12

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07 Dec 2016, 14:50

Trinitek

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Trinitek 07 Dec 2016, 15:13

Mike Gonta wrote:

The exFAT12 tutorial (a bit skimpy, but a work in progress) is available and feedback would be appreciated.

http://mikegonta.com/exFAT12

If you care enough, you can add a .gitattributes file with the line

Code:

*.inc linguist-language=Assembly

to force GitHub to properly label date_time.inc as an assembly file instead of C++.

Also, I thought you had your SudoBIOS repository on there? Did you take it down?

07 Dec 2016, 15:13

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 15:46

Trinitek wrote:

If you care enough, you can add a .gitattributes file with the line
Code:
*.inc linguist-language=Assembly    
to force GitHub to properly label date_time.inc as an assembly file instead of C++.

It's the main page Popular repositories blurb that shows C++. The .gitattributes won't change this.

Trinitek wrote:

Also, I thought you had your SudoBIOS repository on there? Did you take it down?

That's in the ashes since long time ago.

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07 Dec 2016, 15:46

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 16:02

exFAT12

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07 Dec 2016, 16:02

Trinitek

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Trinitek 07 Dec 2016, 16:31

Mike Gonta wrote:

It's the main page Popular repositories blurb that shows C++. The .gitattributes won't change this.

I just tested it on one of my repos and it worked just fine, both on the language percentage bar and on the popular repos screen, unless I misunderstand.

Mike Gonta wrote:

That's in the ashes since long time ago. Soon, I'll be releasing a stripped down version (designed to fit in the 8 optional
boot sectors of exFAT with room for the boot loader). This version will allow function based access to the native
motherboard BIOS from C and assem in PM32, but no assem INT access. A large part of the old code was required
just to process the INTs.

Why not leave it up?

07 Dec 2016, 16:31

Mike Gonta

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Mike Gonta 07 Dec 2016, 17:55

Trinitek wrote:

Mike Gonta wrote:
It's the main page Popular repositories blurb that shows C++. The .gitattributes won't change this.
I just tested it on one of my repos and it worked just fine, both on the language percentage bar and on the popular repos screen, unless I misunderstand.

Apparently, it's a combination of the interpreted contents and the file extension. For example, if it doesn't say
.asm and the contents don't appear to be asm the .gitattributes can't change it. If the contents are C++ and
the extension is .asm then the file is asm (no .gitattributes required). Easy peasy, I simply changed the .inc to
.asm and all is now well in assemville.

Trinitek wrote:

Mike Gonta wrote:
That's in the ashes since long time ago. Soon, I'll be releasing a stripped down version (designed to fit in the 8 optional
boot sectors of exFAT with room for the boot loader). This version will allow function based access to the native
motherboard BIOS from C and assem in PM32, but no assem INT access. A large part of the old code was required
just to process the INTs.
Why not leave it up?

There is very little interest (except mine) in the project when it's "Mike Gonta".
Do you think that there will be more interest when it's "gonta hell".

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07 Dec 2016, 17:55

Trinitek

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Trinitek 07 Dec 2016, 18:12

Mike Gonta wrote:

Trinitek wrote:

Mike Gonta wrote:
That's in the ashes since long time ago. Soon, I'll be releasing a stripped down version (designed to fit in the 8 optional
boot sectors of exFAT with room for the boot loader). This version will allow function based access to the native
motherboard BIOS from C and assem in PM32, but no assem INT access. A large part of the old code was required
just to process the INTs.
Why not leave it up?
There is very little interest (except mine) in the project when it's "Mike Gonta".
Do you think that there will be more interest when it's "gonta hell".

I just think it's odd to go through the trouble of deleting old repos when they could be forgotten instead and left to collect dust. It's not like you're paying for the space anyway.

07 Dec 2016, 18:12

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