Nextor 2.0.4 and 2.1 Alpha 1b released

It was about time for a new release of the MSX-DOS-based operating system that Konamiman is developing. This release comes with the following goodies:

• Fixed a bug that caused "File already in use" errors when copying files within the same drive.
• Fixed a bug that caused the computer to crash when copying files in DOS 1 mode when the source or destination was the internal floppy disk drive.
• Fixed a bug introduced in version 2.0.3: the DOS functions that inform about disk free space _ALLOC (used by COMMAND2.COM) and _DSPACE (used by MSX-BASIC) were returning different results (the difference was equivalent to one cluster).
• Fixed a bug that caused the computer to crash when the kanji mode was activated (CALL KANJI from the BASIC prompt). This bug was present in the original sources ("MSX-DOS 2.50") in which Nextor is based.
• Now two variants of the NEXTOR.SYS files are offered. The full variant contains part of the error messages (such as "reading", "writing" and "Abort, Retry, Ignore") in English and Japanese, while the reduced variant contains only the English messages. Using the reduced variant saves 256 bytes of TPA space.
• If an environment item named ERRLANG is created with value EN (SET ERRLANG=EN), COMMAND2.COM will display error messages in English even if the kanji mode is active. This feature was suggested by MRC user sd_snatcher.
• The fix for bogus values in the ROM of some brazilian computers (filling KANJTABLE only if the computer is japanese) that was introduced in version 2.0.3 has been undone. Users of these computers should use the ERRLANG environment variable as explained above.

As an added bonus, version 2.1 Alpha 1b has been released as well. This version is the same as 2.1 Alpha 1 but with the new features and fixes of versions 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 merged in. And for those interested in giving economic support to the author, Flattr has been added to the list of available services to donate.

Relevant link: Konamiman's MSX page