Download Partition Logic 0.62

A new version of the program has been released in the form of 0.62 on the Partition Logic site. Partition Logic is an open source program to manage partitions on hard drives. The program can be put on a bootflop or CD and is then in the in-house developed visopsysoperating system booted. Version 0.62 is via this page available for download in several editions, including an image file for burning to CD and as an image for a floppy. The floppy version can be downloaded in Windows via RawWrite be put on the disk. The following changes have been implemented in the new Partition Logic:

Overview: This is a maintenance release. New features include basic USB controller support, a USB mass-storage driver, device hotplugging, and Qemu support.

• Implemented basic USB support for UHCI controllers.
• Implemented a SCSI driver that can support USB mass storage devices.
• Added basic hot-plugging support for devices.
• Implemented a proper kernelBus top-level infrastructure for use by the PCI driver, USB driver, etc.
• The display devices and text console drivers are now initialized separately and before other hardware, so that hardware detection messages can be shown while detection is going on.
• The ‘computer’ program now continuously scans for new disks.
• The ‘iconwin’ and ‘filebrowse’ programs now change the mouse pointer when they’re busy loading up a file or program.
• The ‘iconwin’ program now continues silently when programs or icons specified in the config file are missing.
• The boot menu now has a default selection and timeout period (settable by the ‘bootmenu’ program).
• There is now an ‘active menu’ global window system variable so that the focused menu can always be on top, and always go away then it loses focus.
• Fixed: Booting failed on Qemu due to a PS/2 mouse driver hang.
• Fixed: The ‘bootmenu’ program failed to run from a read-only media.
• Fixed: The boot menu timer was counting down too quickly.
• Fixed: The ‘defrag’ program was giving “can’t defrag filesystem type ‘unknown'” messages for things like floppies that hadn’t been mounted.
• Fixed: The kernelDiskGetMediaState() function was returning 0 for flash disks

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