A2osX (0.9.1) Multi-Tasking OS for Apple II

...preemtive ?

Latest News 2017-09-22

Disk images :

• A2OSX.BOOT.po : (0.9) 140k BOOT disk image with all binaries
• A2OSX.DEV.po : (0.9) 140k disk image with ASM binaries, Debug Tools & INClude files
• A2OSX.BUILD.po : (0.9.1) 800k BOOT disk image with S-C MASM 2.0 and all binaries (BOOT+DEV)
• A2OSX.SRC.po : (0.9.1) 800k disk image with all sources

(once Kernel 0.9.1 stable enough, BOOT & DEV will be updated)

0.9 has been archived, next Kernel Version is 0.9.1

• More Standard C API compliance (done!)
• API Cleanup, many functions still use shared space (done!)
• Per process Stack Segment (done!)
• Larger S.PS structure (done!)
• ...
• to allow...Preemtive!

"System Tick" sources for preemtive mode :

Hardware	Resolution	Status	Comment
//c,//c+,IIgs Mouse port	50/50 Hz	Working	Supported at Kernel level, no conflict with GUI's Mouse.DRV (not required to be loaded), requires setting "Machine Timing" properly in KConfig Utility
IIe Mouse Card	50/50 Hz	Working	(same as above)
ThunderClock Plus	64 Hz	In Progress	...Need to fix this faulty H/W first!
... Any suggestion ?

!!!HELP NEEDED!!!

Thanx a lot for all positive comments i read here and there, but i definitively need contributors & testers.

Anybody wants to join this project ?

If you're interested on contributing, please send a message with your skills and in which area you are interested to work on (Network, Kernel, device drivers for additional hardware support, GUI, graphical resourses, command line tools....)

This is some sort of "last hope call", some of you were right, this project is really huge!!! Anyway, i'm convinced that a small team of developers could reach "version 1.0" with GUI & network support in few months....i'm working on it for...4 years now, spending the most of my free time fixing hardware to test this code instead of...writing it!

Well, let me know if you can bring "fresh blood" to this stuff...

Requires :

Enhanced IIe (65c02 cpu) with 128k, //c, IIgs

Introduction...

A2osX is a cooperative, event-driven multitasking kernel (meaning it is applications that are responsible to give back control to kernel) Its principal goal is to collect all "genius" 65c02 pieces of code ever written here and there, concentrated in the same environment. (including IP Stack & HTTPD/TELNETD..., GUI & graphical tools...) "Complete working place", no needing any more to reboot to switch between tons of diskettes!!!

A2osX is designed to work on any "stock" 128k Apple //e, with no additional hardware. As VBL signal is NOT available as an IRQ on //e (it is on //c & IIgs) it makes preemptive multitasking impossible.

A new attempt using Mouse card VBL IRQ is targeted in 0.9.1.

Kernel, loading in Aux LC on top of ProDOS provide API inspired from Linux/Unix World to allow writing applications & command line tools on top of it. This kernel provides an advanced "Memory Manager" able to relocate 65c02 code. "Event Manager" makes TCPIP stack able to listen on several ports, manage ARP,DNS...cache expiration and any background processes. "Task Manager" is responsible to "distribute" CPU time to several loaded processes. "Device Manager" handles event collected from builtin devices as well as devices added by loadable drivers.

If you're 65c02 or Z80 code writer, how to contribute ?

Several subprojects are now indentified :

• Hardware Support : adding drivers to support more & more hardware (RAM cards, storage....)
• Z80 support : Kernel could pass control to any Z80 detected on the system.
• TCP/IP stack
• AppleTalk Support
• GUI & Printing
• Archive, Disk Image transfer tools (ADT client!)...
• Question : Pascal or C Compiler?
• --> Answer : C compiler....Next version of Kernel API will be closer to STDLIBC, Genralize the use of C-Strings
• ...sure there is some more!

Screenshots

General Information:

Kernel API is confined in Aux LC Bank 1 & 2 to leave enough room at $EOOO for Drivers. Network drivers, Mouse, DHGR.DRV can load and fit in Aux LC. Now it's time to make all external BINs use new API, then GUI development will resume.

OApple+1,OApple+2,OApple+3 to switch between screens : Kernel Log, text, DHGR. (OApple+shift+1,OApple+shift+2,OApple+shift+3 on FR keyboard)

SYS/KM* Supported Hardware At Kernel Level (ProDOS):

KM.Name	Status	Comment
KM.NSC	Working	No-Slot-Clock/DS1216E
KM.RAMWORKS	Working	AE-Ramworks I,II,III
KM.VSDRIVE	Working	ADTPro Virtual Drive for SSC
KM.APPLETALK	Working	AppleTalk Support for ProDOS

SBIN,Daemons/Commands:

Name	Status	Comment	K.Ver
INSDRV	Working		0.9.1
GETTY	Working		0.9.1
LOGIN	In Progress	no auth using /etc/passd yet	0.9.1
SHELL	Working	(See Internal Shell commands)	0.9.1
KCONFIG	Working	Kernel Configuration Utility	0.9.1
----	------	-------	-----
TCPIP	Working	Socket API.ARP,IP,ICMP,UDP & TCP ok	0.9
DHCPCLNT	Working	rewritten to use new Socket API	0.9
TELNETD	In Progress		0.9
HTTPD	In Progress		0.9

Internal Shell commands:

Name	Status	Comment
CD	Working	Improved syntax : now, 'CD ../BIN' works
PWD	Working
DATE	Working
ECHO	Working	\b,\e,\f,\n,\\ and \% supported
EXIT	Working
PAUSE	Working
READ	Working	-S : no echo (password)
		-P : "prompt message"
TIME	Working
SET	Working
SLEEP	Working
STARTPROC	Working	Used in A2osX.startup

Shell variables:

Name	Status	Comment
$PWD	Working	'Working Directory'
$0	Working	Command Full Path
$1-$9	Working	Arg[n]
$*	Working	All Args
$#	Working	Arg Count
$?	Working	Return Code
$@	Working	Parent PID
	Working	PID
$!	Working	Child PID

note : '$VAR' does NOT expand Variable

DRV,Drivers:

Name	Status	Comment	K.Ver
Console.DRV	Working	ANSI support in Progress.	0.9.1
SSC.DRV	Working	Apple "Super Serial Card" Driver	0.9
SSC.I.DRV	Working	Apple "Super Serial Card" Driver (IRQ enabled)	0.9
PIC.DRV	In Progress	Apple "Parallel Interface Card" Driver, renamed from PPIC.DRV	0.9
Mouse.DRV	Working	Apple Mouse Card,//c Mouse Port	0.9
DHGR.DRV	In Progress	except bitblt...	0.9
----	------	-------	-----
LanCeGS.DRV	Working		0.9
Uthernet.DRV	Working		0.9
Uthernet2.DRV	Working		0.9
Uther2.AI.DRV	In Progress	With ARP/IP Offloading	0.9

BIN,External Shell commands:

Name	Status	Comment	K.Ver
MEM	Working	Old dump behavior is now MEMDUMP. New MEM command displays MEMSTAT (Main, Aux & Kernel Memory)	0.9.1
LSDEV	Working		0.9.1
PS	Working		0.9.1
MD	Working		0.9.1
LS	Working	-A : Do Not Print . & ..	0.9
		-L : long listing with size/date...
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
RM	Working	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-Q : Quiet
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
CP	Working	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-Q : Quiet
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
		-Y : Dont't Prompt For Override
MV	Working	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-Q : Quiet
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
		-Y : Dont't Prompt For Override
CAT	Working	-A : Show All non printable caracters	0.9.1
		-N : Number all output lines
		-S : Suppress repeated empty output lines
CHTYP	In Progress	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
CHMOD	In Progress	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
CHOWN	In Progress	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
CHGRP	In Progress	-C : Continue On Error	0.9
		-R : Recurse subdirectories
FORMAT	In Progress	-L : Low-Level Format	0.9
EDIT	Working	still missing : find/replace	0.9
NSCUTIL	Working	Tool for setting time in NSC/DL1216E	0.9
----	------	-------	-----
ARP	Working	dump ARP cache, setup a static ARP entry	0.9
PING	Working		0.9
DNSINFO	Working	dump DNS cache, setup a static DNS entry	0.9
IPCONFIG	Working	renamed from NETINFO	0.9
NETSTAT	Working		0.9

BIN,External DEV Shell commands:

Name	Status	Comment	K.Ver
ASM	In Progress	S-C MASM based multi CPU assembler	0.9
MEMDUMP	Working		0.9.1
RPCDUMP	Working	tool based on UDP socket API, renamed from RPCINFO	0.9

Misc

S-C MASM color scheme for Notepad++

...drop _Tools/userDefineLang.xml in %APPDATA%\Notepad++ ;-)