Microware OS-9 Support Links
Home Training Resources TECH-CHECK History Registered Support Logout

Web Update History - 2001

December 27, 2001

Added new Application Notes to the AppNotes page including a clear screen command, software reboot command, using os9merge, dealing with C++ comments in C code, and retrieving the Ethernet address from an Ethernet device..


November 29, 2001

The Hawk V2.3 update has been updated on the Software Updates page.


October 31, 2001

The Hawk update on the web site now updates Hawk to version 2.3. You can obtain this update from the Software Updates page. Please see the releasenotes.txt file in the zip for more information.


October 18, 2001

The Hawk V2.2 update has been updated on the Software Updates page.


October 1, 2001

The Hawk V2.2 update has been updated on the Software Updates page.

The application note "Windows 95/98 Null Modem SLIP connections (MS-Word)" has been updated on the App Notes page to include the differences between Win95 and Win98. The "SLIP Setup for Windows NT 4.0" application note has been removed since this is described in the Using Hawk manual.


September 14, 2001

The PowerPC 3.0 libraries have been updated on the Software Updates page. The libraries were shipped with long data references, and are now compiled with short data references. Please see the description file for more information.


September 6, 2001

The Hawk V2.2 update has been updated on the Software Updates page.

Support for the PCI LAVA four port serial driver has been added to the Software Updates page. Currently this driver is ported for the X86 processor, but instructions are included for porting to other processors. Please see the description file for more information.

The FAQ regarding Hawk locking up during startup on a very few Windows 2000 systems has been updated for Hawk V2.2 users. You will not need this upgrade unless Hawk locks up at the splash screen on a Windows 2000 system.


August 30, 2001

Some 68K libraries have been updated for the Enhanced OS-9® for 68K 1.1 package. The update resolves issues of errors encountered when compiling under CPU32 and linking to 68000 libraies, linking to CPU32 libraries, and mismatched CSLs. This patch can be downloaded from the Software Updates page.

The Hawk V2.2 update has also been updated on the Software Updates page.


August 8, 2001

The incremental Hawk V2.2 update has been updated on the Software Updates page. This update should only be applied after the full Hawk V2.2 update has been applied. For more information, please see the description file on the Software Updates page.


July 27, 2001

The incremental Hawk V2.2 update has been updated on the Software Updates page. This update should only be applied after the full Hawk V2.2 update has been applied. For more information, please see the description file on the Software Updates page.


July 9, 2001

An incremental Hawk V2.2 update has been added to the Software Updates page. This update should only be applied after the full Hawk V2.2 update has been applied. For more information, please see the description file on the Software Updates page.

MP3 player updated on the Software Updates page:

This is a derivative work of the MP3 library from the mpg123 player, specifically the 0.59r version. The home page for the player is http://mpg123.org/ This software is under the GPL license. The GPL.TXT file included with this software explains the license. Michael Hipp the author of the mpg123 player may still be doing licenses other than GPL.


July 3, 2001

An update to Hawk V2.2 has been made available on the Software Updates page. This is a BETA release of Hawk, and should only be applied to Hawk V2.2. Please see the description file for more information.


April 19, 2001

New FAQ added to the Hawk 2.X FAQ page regarding STG Exception error messages in Hawk.

The release notes under the registered Support section have been updated to reflect the threaded version 3.0 release of Enhanced OS-9®

On-Line Documentation updated to reflect the latest releases.


March 22, 2001

A bug related to alarms has been identified and corrected in edition 372 of the 68K kernel (post OS v3.2/product v1.1 release). This particular issue spanned kernel editions 337 through 371. The updated kernels have been placed on the Software Updates page. Please see the description file for more information.

On the General FAQ page, we added "How can I tell what version of OS-9® I am running?" with answer.


January 12, 2001

A new FAQ has been added to the web site to address an issue with Hawk locking up during startup on a very few Windows 2000 systems. You will not need this upgrade unless Hawk locks up at the splash screen on a Windows 2000 system.

Hawk will not startup on Windows 2000 - It hangs at the splash screen


January 11, 2001

Added "Multi-processor or Inter-card communications" application note to the AppNotes page.


January 10, 2001

New updates added to the Software Updates page:

  • fdisk
  • sp21140
  • spenet
  • spf
  • spip
  • sptcp
  • unix.l

Please check out the Software Updates page for descriptions of these updates.


Previous history: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

 

Web Update History - 2001