Sure, the Sprinter's Operating System which called Estex not finished yet. We will work for it, only. The first module of operating system which called DSS (disk subsystem) was developed some years ago. Now we have working for the second version of this subsystem. Because, it had some bugs and had not some features which have got used for a lot of users at the other systems. Next, we plan to develop the other subsystems which will born a new modern system Estex for the Sprinter. During this work our engineers will improve Sprinter architecture and add some hardware features by Altera PLD. I hope, that you won't know the same Sprinter in a year. :)

Hm... And what are you think about a small utility IF.EXE. Which will launch first program and when program was ended then check it errorcode. If it's TRUE result then lanched second program, else third program. For example:

IF.EXE 0==masm.exe %1.asm then link.exe %1.obj else echo Error!

Is it required or not? It can be made soon.

:-) you are great!!!

Sorry for not seeing your post earlier, Denis!

Yes, that IF.EXE looks fine. It will be one of my downloads...

I did not know that .BAT files in Sprinter may use %1 type parameters. But that is even better to know. You know, it is never too late to learn new things .

If you would, please include the source code for IF.EXE, because I'd like to have an example of how to launch a program from within another.

Marcelo.
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Speccy rules, its staff is Sprinter.

First version of User Menu tool will be published soon.

Example of default menufile:

[MENU]
title=SPRINTER
autoexit=0
defaultitem=1,3
menucolor=1
barcolor=11
menuitem=Flex Navigator, c:\FN\FN.EXE
menuitem=Load Spectrum ROMs, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\norun
menuitem=- Spectrum menu -, c:\menu\menu.exe c:\menu\default.mnu#spectrum
menuitem=Command prompt, c:\system.exe /s
menuitem=Clear screen, c:\system.exe cls

[spectrum]
title=SPECTRUM MODES
defaultitem=1
menucolor=4
barcolor=7
menuitem=Sprinter ZX, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\sprinter.zx
menuitem=ZX Spectrum, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\spec128.zx
menuitem=Pentagon 128, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\pent128.zx
menuitem=Scorpion 256, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\scorpion.zx
menuitem=Pentagon 512, c:\zx\spectrum.exe c:\zx\pent512.zx








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> Yes, that IF.EXE looks fine. It will be one of my downloads...

I had got a time for it. And now it's available for download. The sources also included.

Denis:
I'll print and take a look at the sources.
Don't you think this simple utility can be put in the Downloads section? It looks pretty powerful... It may add up to the "DOS" utilities.
Thanks for the fast answer!


Marcelo.
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Speccy rules, its staff is Sprinter.

> Don't you think this simple utility can be put in the Downloads section? It looks pretty powerful... It may add up to the "DOS" utilities.

Yes, it's done. I hope that time to time I'll improve it and add some new features.