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Tardis DOS v0.2.00
Tardis DOS v0.2.00 — the ROM-expansion release.
The 16KB ROM had ~770 free bytes and every new command made it worse. This
release changes that: commands now live in banks — 8KB images the One ROM
serves at $A000 in place of the shell's own BASIC half — so they run from ROM
without spending the 16KB budget.
Free ROM: 771 → 5504 bytes, and with data-driven dispatch a new bank command
costs a 4-byte table row instead of a 20–170 byte resident thunk.
What moved into banks
- disk bank —
dirlspwdloadfloadand the Epyx fast-load protocol - util bank — filename TAB completion
- files bank —
catlesscpmvrmcdstatusborderbgtext
peekpokehelpdevicedevicesand the colour picker
Banks run from ROM, so unlike the old RAM overlays they never occupy user RAM,
and they share one small RAM window — adding a bank costs no further program
space.
Fixes
fload/loadthen a barerunsaid "nothing loaded";loadthenbasic
cold-swapped instead of handing the program over- a disk command could corrupt the cached file commands, making
cdfail while
bg/text/helpstill worked - any command reverted font B (Swedish) to font A, leaving the keyboard Swedish
but the glyphs English - TAB completion now quotes as soon as a spaced name is among the candidates, so
typing on past the space keeps completing; and it closes the quote on a
fully-typed name - a program larger than the loadable area is refused with "program too large"
rather than corrupting the loader mid-transfer helpnow advertises TAB completion (tap CTRL) and command history
Images
| file | machine | One ROM board |
|---|---|---|
c64-tardis-dos-…-fire-24-e.bin |
C64 breadbin | Fire 24-E |
c64-tardis-dos-…-fire-24-f.bin |
C64 breadbin | Fire 24-F |
c64c-tardis-dos-…-fire-28-a.bin |
C64C | Fire 28-A |
c64c-tardis-dos-…-fire-28-c.bin |
C64C | Fire 28-C |
tardis-c128-…-fire-28-c.bin |
C128 (C64 mode, U32) | Fire 28-C |
The breadbin images are hardware-validated. The C64C and C128 images are built
but not hardware-validated with the new bank architecture — their firmware
layout was repaired by inspection this release, so try them with that in mind.