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2026-04-01
02:00
Point to the new PiDP-8/i project pages on obsolescence.dev instead of the old wixsite pages. leaf check-in: eb70641759 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
01:58 Changes to wiki page "Major Differences" artifact: 86cc1c4cec user: poetnerd
01:57 Changes to wiki page "Home" artifact: 83f450d6ed user: poetnerd
01:50 Changes to wiki page "Home" artifact: eecd40876d user: poetnerd
00:58
Update Changelog.md to announce our support for soldering the deposit switch in upside down. check-in: d8d3e3b56a user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-03-31
01:57
Dynamic detection of normal/inverted deposit. Preliminary tests are positive. We'll roll this back if further testing shows problems. Let's get it where more people will test it. Release candidate is feature complete! check-in: fd696b24f6 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-03-29
15:02
Untested rewrite. Dynamically check how deposit switch is installed and flip the logic if necessary. leaf check-in: 5acc6e6937 user: poetnerd tags: invert-deposit
2026-03-15
04:08
Conversion to ock (OS/8 Combined kit) as default boot image. Includes changing the config option "use-ock" to "runtime" with a choice of "ock" or "v3d" and ock as default. check-in: 13082910a8 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
01:40
Updates to README.md. Updates to CHANGELOG.md about readme and Wiki pages. check-in: c67876075a user: poetnerd tags: trunk
01:32 Changes to wiki page "Home" artifact: 3cf9964658 user: poetnerd
2026-03-14
22:43 Changes to wiki page "Major Differences" artifact: ca1df74472 user: poetnerd
21:27 Changes to wiki page "OS Compatibility" artifact: 61d5d9263c user: poetnerd
2026-03-13
03:32 Changes to wiki page "Home" artifact: 19fdcc0075 user: poetnerd
03:22
Mentioned the README.md update in CHANGELOG.md check-in: f26a9bcc63 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
03:20
Format fixup for CHANGELOG.md check-in: fa39db1551 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
03:17
Tuned up README.md to give a clearer roadmap for the different activities different people do with the tree -- simple image utilization, through contribution. The config options section has been spun out into a separate document. check-in: 52cfcdf6a1 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
02:05
Update README.md to reflect our new rpi-image-gen based imager instead of bosi. check-in: cab561aba7 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-03-11
03:56
Fixed teco-pi-demo.in (TODO: pkg_resources, used by simh.py is deprecated in modern Python deployments.) check-in: f6297418a8 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-03-10
02:39
Merge pidp8i-image-gen branch into trunk check-in: a25ab65f06 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-03-09
19:28
Image was built using the "release" tag which is right when we actually do the release but very wrong right now. Additionally, benchmark "teco-pi-demo -b" broke when we moved to OpenSIMH, but was not noticed till now. A fix for it is forthcoming. Until then, it's a test/benchmark, not a build action, so it's removed. Build and run of images with trunk have been tested on Pi4 Pi3b and Pi3b+. Everything looks good. leaf check-in: 191737c6e0 user: poetnerd tags: pidp8i-image-gen
2026-03-08
12:33
Tweaks to the new rpi-image-gen process description check-in: 49bd0d9c1a user: tangent tags: pidp8i-image-gen
05:19
Add rpi-image-gen based image build pipeline, replacing bosi check-in: 3c54453a3f user: poetnerd tags: pidp8i-image-gen
2026-02-28
03:36
Set a date for the next release. Add conversion from v3d to ock default. check-in: f490bb0532 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2026-02-01
21:53 Reply: Inverting the deposit switch in software patch artifact: a1c9bc5825 user: poetnerd
21:50
Fix for hang problem in invert-deposit from claude.ai check-in: ed533e67c3 user: pi tags: invert-deposit
2025-11-25
02:22
Add "make run-v3d" so people who want v3d after we make ock the default can get it. check-in: c29b97e6ca user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2025-11-17
00:43
Fix for non-default system file specification in os8-cp. I didn't fully enough understand how to use tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile. check-in: 0bd908eb80 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2025-11-14
22:53
Logged update to os8-cp in Changelog.md check-in: b70c53bf6b user: poetnerd tags: trunk
22:48 Closed ticket [60aedba171]: os8-cp could use a rewrite. plus 4 other changes artifact: 93b655bb51 user: poetnerd
22:46 Closed ticket [e068dff9b4]: Mutation of v3d-patched.rk05 image by os8-cp causes superfluous rebuilds of v3d.rk05 plus 4 other changes artifact: b255d49aaa user: poetnerd
22:41
Change to os8-cp: Now mount system image via a scratch copy. Document not to write into SYS: or DSK: Moved make_scratch out of os8script.py and into os8util.py since it is used both by os8-cp and os8util.py. This obviates the need for a requested rewrite of os8-cp. check-in: 35a272a71a user: poetnerd tags: trunk
20:59
Change to os8-cp: Now mount system image via a scratch copy. Document not to write into SYS: or DSK: Moved make_scratch out of os8script.py and into os8util.py since it is used both by os8-cp and os8util.py. This obviates the need for a requested rewrite of os8-cp. check-in: 8de1fe4d55 user: poetnerd tags: invert-deposit
2025-11-11
22:05 Closed ticket [3abb8cb2c9]: Problem consistently creating media with source copied in from POSIX plus 3 other changes artifact: aa69b7c770 user: poetnerd
22:01 New ticket [60aedba171] os8-cp could use a rewrite.. artifact: 681178fa00 user: poetnerd
21:54 New ticket [e068dff9b4] Mutation of v3d-patched.rk05 image by os8-cp causes superfluous rebuilds of v3d.rk05. artifact: 15c385dac3 user: poetnerd
21:48 Fixed ticket [3abb8cb2c9]: Problem consistently creating media with source copied in from POSIX plus 4 other changes artifact: d84f39f75a user: poetnerd
21:36
Take important bugfix of os8-cp from trunk. check-in: 3edf6ac73f user: poetnerd tags: invert-deposit
21:34
This fixes breakage I introduced into os8-cp in 9dcd78920a. When I added the support for the -z (zero) option, I left out the test for using it and instead used it all the time. This fixes the bug reported in ticket 3abb8cb2c936bca22a0c7564155b251a346b0c7c check-in: 6c3237d7ec user: poetnerd tags: trunk
21:25 Ticket [3abb8cb2c9] Problem consistently creating media with source copied in from POSIX status still Open with 4 other changes artifact: a1278363a6 user: poetnerd
17:22
Complete merge from trunk check-in: c719e33985 user: poetnerd tags: invert-deposit
2025-11-10
18:58 New ticket [3abb8cb2c9] Problem consistently creating media with source copied in from POSIX. artifact: e9755c30d6 user: poetnerd
2025-11-09
22:44
Additional status information letting us know when an include file is run within a script. check-in: a39428cee9 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
19:15 Reply: Inverting the deposit switch in software patch artifact: 6c41a0b4f7 user: poetnerd
04:58
Pull in fixes from Trunk. check-in: 1e1e7f934b user: poetnerd tags: invert-deposit
04:53
Pull in fix to make clean. check-in: 89a92f45d0 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
04:52
Fix a bug in make clean where the source rk05 images in obj were not cleaned up. check-in: 95cddcf6cd user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2025-11-05
04:05
Updated Changelog.md to reflect recent changes. check-in: 0a43b6dfa8 user: poetnerd tags: trunk
2025-11-04
05:35 Closed ticket [fafc91e2a5]: Rebuild of ock-cusps-obj.rk05 can run out of space. plus 4 other changes artifact: 50c2ffbdaf user: poetnerd
05:26
Fix for ticket fafc91e2a51d3d1786037879cfb746cc97981705 Added "zero" to the AttachSpec, and threaded use of it into os8-cp. Now the -z option in our scripts is obeyed. check-in: 9dcd78920a user: poetnerd tags: trunk
04:10 Verified ticket [fafc91e2a5]: Rebuild of ock-cusps-obj.rk05 can run out of space. plus 4 other changes artifact: aa70f7a3ee user: poetnerd