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Sorry if this isn't the correct spot to post this but XUB r630 came out during the holidays.

https://xtideuniversalbios.org/timeline

  • Changed the g_szPCFlashSuccessful string in XTIDECFG to reflect the reality - it turns out ANY key was limited to just ENTER or ESC.
  • Removed the NEC V-specific optimization I added in r602 because NEC's documentation completely fails to mention that the ROL4 instruction also changes the high nibble of AL. Huge thanks to vcfed-member dreNorteR for discovering this and also for suggesting an optimization to the physical address conversion code in IdeTransfer.asm.
  • Made some changes to the OUTPUT_AL_TO_IDE_REGISTER and OUTPUT_AL_TO_IDE_CONTROL_BLOCK_REGISTER macros as an optimization. This saves 15+12 bytes in builds without MODULE_8BIT_IDE (e.g. the PS/2 builds).
  • Other minor optimizations and cleanups.

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https://xtideuniversalbios.org/changeset/631/ … deuniversalbios

Changes:

Fixed a bug in XTIDECFG where changing the COM port for a virtual serial device would not work at all. Thanks to Jaroslaw Jablonski for reporting this problem.
Added a couple of macros to the library, LPUSH and LPOP, which creates the long (two bytes) encoding of PUSH and POP respectively. They are pretty much useless except LPOP can be used to differentiate between 808x and NEC V CPUs.

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