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The virtual floppy disk edition of MEDOS (MEadows Disk Operating System) to have better control of virtual floppy diskettes.

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MEDOS_Floppy

The virtual floppy disk edition of MEDOS (MEadows Disk Operating System) to have better control of virtual floppy diskettes.


README Index

00.0 - Top

01.0 - Title

02.0 - README Index

03.0 - About

04.0 - Project Wiki

05.0 - Languages

05.1 - Human spoken languages

05.2 - Computer languages

06.0 - Other MEDOS projects

07.0 - GitHub Issues

08.0 - Programs used

09.0 - Recommended programs

10.0 - Devices

11.0 - MEDOS Floppy Version history

12.0 - Contributers

13.0 - Contributing

14.0 - README info

25.0 - Footer


About

See above

Also:

This edition of MEDOS is designed to run on virtual floppy disk files (*.vfd, *.flp) and use them as mountable floppy drives. I will not be supporting a physical version due to the fact that floppy disks are hardly ever used anymore (less than 0.1% of modern computer users still use them)


Project Wiki

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Languages

Human spoken languages

This project is mostly written in English, there are no other languages used.

  1. No other human spoken languages are included (other than English)

Computer languages

This project is mostly written in Python, but is also written in 3 other languages that include:

  1. Plain text
  1. Markdown
  1. Microsoft INI
  1. No other computer languages were used

Other MEDOS projects

This is only the external hard drive edition of MEDOS, there are other versions available for different external storage mediums, such as:

MEDOS Hard Disk Drive (HDD) edition (only for virtual machines)

This version of MEDOS is designed for external hard drives.

MEDOS Solid State Drive (SSD) edition

This version of MEDOS is designed to run on external Solid State Drives, either through a host machine, or remotely on a virtual machine.

MEDOS Tape drive edition (coming soon)

This version of MEDOS is designed to be run on a tape drive.


GitHub issues

This is a list of the current issues with this project, from the GitHub issues section.

#1 No issues at the moment


Programs used

To make this project originally, I used the following programs:

Notepad++ (Windows)

Windows explorer (Windows)

Python 3.6.4 (Windows

No other programs were used to make the original 2 versions of this project


Recommended programs

Here are the recommended programs to use for using this project:

Python 3.0 or later

A source editor (such as notepad++, no other alternates listed)

No other requirements/programs listed


Devices

MEDOS Floppy Disk edition will not run on actual floppy diskettes, as floppy disk usage is very obscure in 2020 (and even in 2018, when this project was started) virtual machine usage will be the go-to method.

The following virtual machine hypervisors and clients are planned to have support:

  • Oracle VM VirtualBox
  • VMWare
  • Qemu
  • Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
  • Sheepshearer
  • PearPC
  • No other VM Clients/Hypervisors currently listed

MEDOS Floppy Version history

Build 2 GitHub release 1 - 20 commits (Released: Monday, July 6th 2020 at 7:02 pm)

Build 2 GitHub release 2 - 23 commits (Released: Monday, July 6th 2020 at 7:08 pm)

More versions coming soon


Contributers

Currently, I am the only contributer, but if you follow ther CONTRIBUTING rules, you can contribute as well.

  1. seanpm2001 - 20 commits (As of Monday, July 6th 2020 at 7:00 pm)

  2. No other contributers at the moment


Contributing

Please abide by the contributing rules for this project. They are listed here.


README info

File type: Markdown (*.md)

Line count (including blank lines): 0,248

File version: 1 (Monday, July 6th 2020 at 7:00 pm)


README version history

  • Version 1 (Monday, July 26th 2020 at 7:00 pm)

Changes:

  • Started the README file
  • Added the title section
  • Added the index section
  • Added the about section
  • Added the ProjectWiki section
  • Added the languages section
    1. Added the human spoken languages section
    1. Added the computer languages section
  • Added the other MEDOS projects section
  • Added the MEDOS Floppy version history section
  • Added the contributers section
  • Added the contributing section
  • Added the README info section
  • Added the footer section
  • Version 2 (Coming soon)

Changes:

  • Coming soon

End of README file

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