What's new, bugs, TODO

• What's new
• Fixed bugs
• Bugs
• TODO

0.82:
• You may now have the right brace ('{') on the next line (may be blanks between) in addition to on the initial line of image definition.
• Images with no defined position are by default positioned below the previous image instead of under menu coordinates. This makes it possible to start the menu in one spot and then continue it on the other side of the screen and only have to define the position twice.
• mapdrive -option.
• I must've done something but I guess I've forgotten what...
0.81:
• Single-shot autoboot
  This feature allows one-time automagical boot of an image and after that returning to normal behavior. Programs like rebooter may use this feature.
• dosmenukey -option for bootsectors.
  
• Improved linux command line editing. You can now edit the default command line or clear it by pressing esc.
• You can now set default image.
• 'fastboot' -> 'autoboot'
• Password support
• bzImage autodetection - "big_linux" is no longer needed.
• Improved background file support
• Penguin background image ;)
• More documentation and comments in sources
0.8:
• More documentation
• Minor enhancements
• MBR rewrite should now work for hda.
• Necessary modifications to Visual Chos.
0.73 (development release):
• Modularized it
• HD/FD swap
• Dos4Boot
• I even started documentating it in HTML !!!
• Configuration file:
  chos.bsect + chos.loader -> bindir
  chos.background -> bgfile
  chos.map -> mapfile
0.72 (development release):
• A few minor bugs were fixed.
• Bootsector modification feature for fooling some stupid operating systems.
• Visual Chos - configuration editor for X.
• '-view' option and 'showscreen'
0.71:
• Major bug fix. Should now work some people for whom it didn't before. See bugs that've been fixed.
0.7:
• New config file image description format, which can be extended to new options more easily.
• No more need to precede colons on the linux command line with backslashes :).
• Emergency bootsector is no longer compiled in by default (There's space for strings in the bootsector).
• See Bugs that've been fixed.
• It now sets environment variable BOOT_IMAGE automagically
• It now also passes "auto" on the command line if booted automagically (i.e. not started with space and given command line manually)
• Let's you specify hotkey and position of each image on screen.
• fastboot option
• bzImage (high-loaded (at 1M) kernel) support
• initrd (initial ramdisk) support
• new sample background piccy (a lot better than the old)
0.63:
• Added options to specify map file/loader/boot sector/ background file in the config. file.
• The map file is now written on disk when it's ready, not sector at a time (safer).
• U can now have colons on the linux command line by preceding 'em with backslashes.
0.61:
• New more portable (and smaller) map file format.
• After lots of whining from people 'round the world you now get the sources too =)
• New installation script
0.6:
• Emergency boot sector support - Choose-OS can now be configured to load an "emergency" boot sector if it can't load it's own 2nd stage, map file or background.
• Background image support.
• Options to specify menu/timer position.

0.84:
• Quick-fix to still buggy swaphd/swapfd.
• Fixed a bug that could cause partition table be trashed when in verbose mode.
0.83:
• Fixed the bug that caused chos to fail on every new installation.
0.82:
• It no longer tries to read cds (and other read-only) devices when searching for the last device on an ide interface
• Changed the bootsector loader to jump to address 0000:7c00 instead of 07c0:000 in order to make FreeDOS not hang when loaded by chos.
• Use alternate way of emptying bios keyboard buffer when using the dosmenukey-option. The old way could hang the system (see a comment in ../sources/loader/loader-bsect.S for details).
0.81:
• When emergency bootsector feature was used, the chos bootsector was copied over interrupt table at 0000:0000. (This was because it used to move itself at second stage loader address at 0x9b000 but since version 0.81 this address has been 0x00000. Now it will move itself at 0x10000)
• Fixed a typo in sources/loader/loader-bsect.S : jne -> je.
  If you had dos4boot support compiled in the loader set a flag in dos bootsector when it shouldn't have and vice versa.
• Lots of minor bugs fixed.
0.8:
• Removed cylinder check in read_linear (sources/loader/int13.S).
  That is because some bioses seem to return too small cylinder counts while bigger values still being valid. (It returns 765 when it should return 766 and actual cylinder count is 767 (LBA)).
  If you want the check, add -DCHECK_CYLINDER in sources/Makefile.
0.72:
• There was a typo in bg.c
• It didn't compile with -DHAVE_EMERGENCY. That's 'cos I never tried the feature after changing chos a lot.
0.71:
• Fixed a bug that could result in 'DIVIDE OVERFLOW' if linear sector address was creater than 65535 * sectors_per_cylinder. (e.g. with 63 sectors/cylinder linear address was creater than 63*65535=4128705, which is about 2Gb). I changed to using 64-bit arithmetic and now it seems to work...
0.7:
• With some hardware configurations noise was displayed in the background image when directly loaded disk->video memory. Compile with -DBUG_HARDWARE to use a buffer to prevent this problem.
0.62:
• Fixed a typo (there was 'x' where there should've been 'y'), which didn't let you have menu x pos>30 or something...
0.41:
• When you booted to DOS, system time was set to 00:00:00 !!! Fixed that. (It was set zero when you booted to Linux too, but as linux is wiser, it reads time from CMOS and everything worked ok.)
0.4:
• U can no longer fool Choose-OS to use loader and/or boot sector of previous incompatible version of Choose-OS.