ISO Loader 0.8.x Beta + preview of DreamShell v4.0 RC 5

[SWAT]

(19.04.2023 10:21)MastaG писал(а):  @SWAT
Could you make it for the next release, so the "low-level" box is also being saved inside the profile?

OK.

(19.04.2023 14:01)fafadou писал(а):  As always very impressive to see all this whole work
Are you happy with your rewritten code ? do you think it's possible to get the boot for all wince games with cdda for you ?
Kiss psycho circus and deep fighter works with previous loader managed by old GDC syscall less good than the new one strangely that we told about.

In generally it's works much better and it closer to native code workflow.
At some time I fix remaining WinCE and much better than 0.6 do because it has lags and works in wrong way.
I need to understand the reason, it is due to the difference in the operation of the devices. The GD drive in some cases works differently than the HDD, and WinCE games are very demanding on this.

(01.12.2022 13:47)SWAT писал(а):  Just asking to myself why you have removed the CSO support for extended loader ?
Do you think it's a good idea to remove it from default.bin default loader ?
Or add it in the extended one or simply keep it for full loader only.
Actually, I don't know what CSO is I'm sorry.

Because the Extended loader is limited to 32 KB for all of this:
program (binary + bss) + 1024 for params + 256 offset (0x100) + 32 for aligning
So I just save some memory for other code.
CSO supported in the Base (no CDDA and IRQ) and the Full (all features) loaders.
In the Base loader CSO present because this loader is much smaller than the Extended loader. so I can add it to build.
The Base loader size should enough for using up to 0x8c004800 offset and still has stock of memory.
BTW, Extended loader can be used only up to 0x8c004000 in low memory.