This is the last of the ports PRs assigned to me... and actually a

rather large patchset improving pcemu.  I therefore also decided to
bump the version number from 1.01a to 1.01b, David Hedley apparently
abandoned all work on pcemu anyway.

The exact details of Arne's patches can be studied in the PR, it's
something like 50 lines of explanation i don't want to quote in full
here.  In short, he submitted a number of improvements and a fix for
the hard disk emulation in pcemu's BIOS.  After a review, i decided to
leave the patches verbatim.

In addition and while i was at it, i added something i always ment to
do: the option to dynamically add floppy disks (and now also hard
disks) from within the .pcemurc file, so there's no need to recompile
if you just wanna get access to your floppy from within pcemu.
Comment it out again once you're done.

PR:		ports/5788
Submitted by:	<arnej@math.ntnu.no> Arne Henrik Juul

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/emulators/pcemu/files/bootstrap.shar b/emulators/pcemu/files/bootstrap.shar
index 4120c8d94b53..d1e9c95b1716 100644
--- a/emulators/pcemu/files/bootstrap.shar
+++ b/emulators/pcemu/files/bootstrap.shar
@@ -604,11 +604,15 @@ X
 X2. Information about this FreeBSD port
 X
 X
-XThis `port' of pcemu to FreeBSD has been prepared by Jörg Wunsch.
-XIt is an only slightly modified version of David's code, a few
-Xproblems have been fixed for the BSD compilation environment, and
-Xthe location of the default boot file has been moved in order to
-Xget you started with just what you are reading now.
+XThis `port' of pcemu to FreeBSD has been prepared by Jörg Wunsch.  It
+Xis a modified version of David's code, a few problems have been fixed
+Xfor the BSD compilation environment, the location of the default boot
+Xfile has been moved in order to get you started with just what you are
+Xreading now.  Unfortunately David is no longer developing pcemu, so
+Xduring the past years, a number of improvements have been added to the
+XFreeBSD port.  Thanks to Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@math.ntnu.no> who
+Xsubmitted a large patchset, among them fixes to make harddisk access
+Xwork.
 X
 XThe PostScript document David is mentioning under 3. below has
 Xbeen compressed and stored under
@@ -644,9 +648,23 @@ Xkeymap 44=y
 Xkeymap 53=-
 Xkeymap 86=<
 X
+XAnother recent addition to the .pcemurc file was the option to add
+Xfloppy and hard disk defintions dynamically.  (Previously, everything
+Xneeded to be compiled into the emulator.)  The syntax of those entries
+Xis:
 X
-XOnce :-) i will have filed all my modifications back to David, and
-Xperhaps they will be included into the regular distribution as well.
+Xkeyword filename sectors cylinders heads
+X
+XExamples:
+X
+Xfloppydisk /dev/rfd0 18 80 2
+Xharddisk /dev/rad0 255 400 63
+X
+XDrive letters are being assigned in ascending order, where drive A: is
+Xalways reserved for the boot file.  Write permission to the file in
+Xquestion is required by the time pcemu is being started (i. e. any
+Xfloppy media need to be in the drive by that time).  Be careful with
+Xletting DOS tools access your hard disks...
 X
 XShould you wish to contact me regarding this FreeBSD port, you can
 Xreach me as joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de.