aeBIOS - source code

Mike Gonta

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Dec 27, 2010, 11:34:07 AM12/27/10

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"Frank Kotler" wrote in message news:if807v$kqc$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

> Kewl! I looked, but sure enough, I didn't see complete source code. Am I
> missing something? What's the license on this stuff, Mike? In any case,
> thanks!

Thanks Frank,

I've updated the distribution, the complete source code is in the readme
folder. The main file aeBIOS.asm is a copywritten compilation of original
and public domain code. The auxiliary files are original code public domain.

Mike Gonta
look and see - many look but few see

http://aeBIOS.com

Nathan Baker

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Dec 27, 2010, 12:37:36 PM12/27/10

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"Mike Gonta" <mike...@REMOVEgmailTHIS.com> wrote in message
news:ifaf5p$c0b$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

>
> I've updated the distribution, the complete source code is in the readme
> folder. The main file aeBIOS.asm is a copywritten compilation of original
> and public domain code. The auxiliary files are original code public
> domain.
>

Thanks Mike!

For those who wish to not be bothered with the task of opening an IMG file,
here is the contents of the 'readme' folder:

http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aebios.tar.gz

...or to access them individually...

http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aeBIOS.asm
http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/boot32.asm
http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/kernel.asm
http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/readme.txt
http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aeBIOS%20interrupt%20functions.txt

Nathan.

Rod Pemberton

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Dec 28, 2010, 1:50:56 AM12/28/10

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"Nathan Baker" <nathan...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> For those who wish to not be bothered with the task of opening an IMG
file,
>

you can get 7-zip which will do it for you on Windows:
http://www.7-zip.org/

7-zip supports opening images of FAT filesystems. It seems to support FAT12
and FAT16.

For 'nix-en, you can try the p7zip port:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/

Various p7zip ports listed here:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

HTH,

RP

Mike Gonta

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Dec 28, 2010, 1:55:19 PM12/28/10

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"Nathan Baker" wrote in message
news:JoWdnQkAQqZ8U4XQ...@giganews.com...
>

> Thanks Mike!
>
> For those who wish to not be bothered with the task of opening an IMG
> file,
> here is the contents of the 'readme' folder:
>
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aebios.tar.gz
>
> ...or to access them individually...
>
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aeBIOS.asm
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/boot32.asm
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/kernel.asm
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/readme.txt
> http://clax.inspiretomorrow.net/aebios/aeBIOS%20interrupt%20functions.txt

Thanks Nathan,

The latest source code, documentation, image file and change log are here:

http://aeBIOS.com/aeBIOS/assets/

Dave -Turner

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Dec 30, 2010, 3:11:17 PM12/30/10

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sounds cool, and don't take this wrong or offensive, but why would anybody
need to use aeBIOS? I think there's a lot of people who'd ask this question
but it's not answered on the main aeBIOS page - what can it do that other
systems can't, what advantages we'd get from it, why should we use it etc.
Im not a BIOS or OS developer so you have nothing to be offended by from me
:)
Cheers and happy new year!
Dave

Nathan

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Dec 30, 2010, 7:25:21 PM12/30/10

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I think it would be a good platform for someone who wants to code "on
bare hardware", so to speak, and not be saddled with the burden of a
nasty OS API. Sort-of like DOS programming but its in 32-bits and
comes with Mike's hand-crafted BIOS API.

Nathan.

kevin goodman

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May 12, 2014, 11:57:33 AM5/12/14

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This is a little late for this post but is there anyway I can get ahold of aeBIOS and mikeOS32 at this point in time? all the links are dead, and i really want to mess around with them.

Rod Pemberton

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May 12, 2014, 8:20:47 PM5/12/14

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On Mon, 12 May 2014 11:57:33 -0400, kevin goodman <kggoo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>> Mike Gonta
>> look and see - many look but few see
>>

>> [link]

>
> This is a little late for this post but is there anyway I can get ahold
> of aeBIOS and mikeOS32 at this point in time? all the links are dead,
> and i really want to mess around with them.

Mike Gonta's websites seem to be down, except his no access front page.
He was responsible for aeBIOS and pdBIOS32. MikeOS is not his project.
Mike was responsible for porting MikeOS to 32-bit.

His Google Group on aeBIOS is blocked too.

So, you might try a post to alt.os.development. He posts there
like once a year. Or, you could try a post on the FASM forums.
He was participating there. He's on StackOverflow, maybe you
can contact him there.

FASM forum
http://board.flatassembler.net/

Mike Gonta on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/users/430125/mike-gonta

Mike Gonta's website (no access, no files)
http://mikegonta.com/

MikeOS project (16-bit)
http://mikeos.berlios.de/

HTH,

Rod Pemberton

kevin goodman

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May 19, 2014, 12:18:37 PM5/19/14

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On Monday, December 27, 2010 11:34:07 AM UTC-5, Mike Gonta wrote:

Thanks for the help, I saw that he posted here a couple of years ago, figured he might still occasionally show up and see the post and help me out. Anyways, I'll try doing what u said and see if it works. :-)