It's been three years without new releases of Nextor, the disk operating system developed by Konamiman on top of the source code of MSX-DOS. But it's never too late for good news, and so here it is: Nextor 2.0.5 beta 1 has just been released.
The main change in this version is the addition of a new routine for device drivers: DRV_CONFIG. This allows drivers to specify how many drive letters want to have assigned at boot time and which device should be assigned to each drive by default, overriding the default procedure in which Nextor guesses this information based on the devices available at boot time; this is useful especially for drivers that handle removable devices, since it allows these to have drives assigned even when no medium is present when booting. Implementing this routine is optional, existing drivers will continue to work without modifications.
Other than that there are some bug fixes, you can see the full list in the change log directly in the Nextor repository now that Nextor has been published as an open source project.
You can download the Nextor kernel ROMs and tools from Konamiman's MSX page, as usual.
Relevant link: Nextor section on Konamiman's MSX page
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