os8088 / Downloads and Release Notes
Releases
Every tagged build, newest first.
Each release comes in a ZIP file with the floppy disk images and live USB and CD images inside. Browse the changes below and follow a release to GitHub for the full notes and downloads.
Every tagged os8088 release, newest first
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- XTMP3: an MP3 player for every PC #304
- CD-ROM drives, and CDRack to play audio CDs #297
- Desktops up to 1,024 by 768 #295
- Install os8088 on a hard disk #287
- RealDMG, a Game Boy emulator #299
- Sheet 2.1 and Chart #289
- The web browser downloads files #306
- Volume beside the clock, and a Mixer #296
- WireFleet's missiles, and WireChat's new look #288
- Video Player: frames made of blocks #299
- Fixes #307
- The Wire adds three programs #310
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- Sticky Apps: programs that live on the desk #251
- A calendar, a sticky note and a clock #266
- WireChat, chat rooms on the network #274
- The kernel in ROM, or above 1MB #268
- Eight colour schemes on VGA and EGA #249
- Shortcuts, and programs that start at boot #268
- Every program is one file #268
- The machine remembers which program opens which file #268
- Timer and Bounce are ordinary programs #264
- Web browser: forms and older sites #253
- More room on the 360KB system disk #268
- Fixes #268
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- isoTron, a light-wall duel #250
- WireBall, Pong across two PCs #257
- Select several files at once #252
- Disk images as drives #252
- A Windows-style theme #252
- Expanded memory, PicoMEM cards and hard disks #252
- A network card and a MIDI port in one machine #248
- Faster networking and settings #252
- The Video Player #252
- Smaller programs, more free memory #252
- Fixes #252
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- MIDIRack's songs on the live media #247
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- PiXEL, an image viewer and editor #225
- Where PiXEL is
- Sound through a Covox on the printer port #229
- The Covox on a 4.77 MHz PC #240
- A smaller system #241
- Open and Save are a Disk window #230
- Desktop icons drawn once #230
- The Video Player #241
- Hard disks read a cylinder at a time #241
- The Floppy page's Cylinder setting is back #230
- Settings kept when re-imaging a CompactFlash card #200
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- MIDIRack, a MIDI music player #224
- Where MIDIRack is
- The sound driver drives OPL3 chips and MIDI ports
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- The Wire takes programs with more files #219
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- 1942 #202
- DrMarco is on the software disks #207
- Recorded sound with no sound card #214
- One desktop, and shortcuts #214
- Long files are written much faster #214
- Files too big for one floppy #214
- More control over floppy drives #214
- Shut Down #215
- The everything disk is now a set #208
- An emulator disk #217
- A smaller kernel #214
- Fixes #214
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- Music in Gorillas #205
- The browser demo boots from a hard disk
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- Run DOS programs from the desktop #197
- Choose how much memory a DOS program gets #197
- COMMAND.COM works without a file #197
- Smaller kernels after adding the DOS box #197
- Move or hide the dock #193
- Disk windows share program icons #197
- Programs can request a move in memory #197
- Shared controls and About boxes #197
- The assembly Pac-Man port is retired #197
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- Dot Delirium, a maze chase #179
- Clear Skies draws faster in flight #179
- Three 360KB disks sorted by subject #179
- One floppy for the 128KB machine #179
- Note Pad no longer says Too big by mistake #179
- ArtfulType: a way out with the mouse, and the shared clipboard #179
- An hourglass pointer #179
- A smaller kernel #179
- Sheet saves what it shows #178
- Scribe works after a disk swap #177
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- Clear Skies: a flight simulator #172
- An Apple II Plus, in a window #171
- PaccMan: the arcade Pac-Man #165
- Telnet is a bulletin-board terminal now #166
- Scribe, and pictures in documents #162
- Everything on a floppy is compressed #172
- Menus stop repainting the page underneath #172
- Fractal, Tank Attack and Paint are faster #172
- Programs can be moved in memory while they run #172
- A typeface browser #158
- Six fixes that came off real machines #172
- Writing the live disk from a Mac #159
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- The Wire: an online software library on the desktop #151
- The Wire carries whole folders, and runs them from a RAM disk #154
- The kernel is 10,752 bytes smaller #147
- A 128KB machine boots to a desktop #147
- Audio Player #144
- The pointer keeps moving during disk operations #147
- Thirteen background tasks instead of seven #147
- Paint's canvas takes a quarter of the memory on a monochrome adapter #147
- A program file can carry parts #147
- 1.2MB disks for every application floppy #150
- A pointer that follows the host's mouse under QEMU and VMware #148
- Chart window redraws its margin #145
- A window across two displays no longer loses a character #147
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- Hard disks: install it, and boot what you installed #61
- A document opens its program #61
- Missile Command, the twelfth package #53
- ModPlug Player, the fourteenth package -- and a face drawn from dirty bits #58
- TameGram, the thirteenth package #55
- The File Manager gets Cut, Copy, Paste and drag and drop #54
- Note Pad stops walking the note, and ~30% off mono text #54
- Two debuggers, because 86Box has no automation socket and real iron has none at all #61
- 86Box targets for the fast end of the range #59
- The repository stops shipping its own build output #56
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- ArtfulType, the eleventh package #49
- Loadable drivers: a driver is a package that is not an application #51
- The claim heap, and a 128KB floor #51
- Repainting costs a rectangle, not the screen #51
- The system disk is a FAT12 volume, and it remembers #51
- A clock ladder, because the BIOS is the last rung #51
- CPU tiers and memory above 1MB #51
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- Five fractals where two was the ceiling #41
- Where the arena starts, and why it is not convenient #41
- The API goes far, and callbacks resolve their own segment #41
- Marshalling at the boundary, not segment overrides everywhere #41
- Relocation is gone #41
- The kernel knows what CPU it is on, and can see above 1MB #41
- Twenty thousand bytes back in the kernel #41
- The same binary on a 286 and two 386s #40
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