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Creating a Release Disc under the p-System

These are the components that must be placed on a p-System disc to allow it to run a dialogue automatically when it boots. There are typically two groups of such files: operating system and related files; and those containing and supporting the dialogues.

NOTE: The p-code segment (not to be confused with 8086-family segments, or the ``segments'' of other operating systems) is the fundamental unit of storage by which the p-System manages executable code. Many of the following points involve organising segments for optimal execution. A reasonable familiarity with them is highly desirable for programmers doing any sort of systems maintenance under the p-System, including, obviously, creating release discs. Useful references include Pecan Systems' reference manual for the ``Power'' System, and the Internal Architecture Guide in its final release by SofTech Microsystems (the latter is not quite up to date, but there are few important differences between its descriptions and the actual state of version IV.2.1 segments.)

• Formatting
• Operating System
• Dialogue Files