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Digest: ReactOS 4 months later [after 0.3.16 release]

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Digest: ReactOS 4 months later [after 0.3.16 release]

    imageGood afternoon, the Guardians!
    4 months have passed since the release date of the latest release 0.3.16 and, it seems to me, it's time to share the current state of things in the project.

    • The last hours of a new crowdfunding attempt, ReactOS Community Edition, have now passed . Collected 23 000 25 141 or $ 873 277.66 rubles at the current rate , the money in any case, go to the project fund. Based on the voting results, among the backers it will be determined what they should be spent on. I don’t give links so that the topic doesn’t fall into the “I PR” hub
    • ReactOS is about to launch a new file and desktop manager, explorer_new. No fiction, just all the buttons and functions in it will finally work ...
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      Download testst assembly, ~ 100 mb. Monitor the daily progress of shell development.
    • ReactOS has its own full-fledged DOS emulator - NTVDM . The emulator can be run in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments and is based on the new implementation of the abandoned softx86 , as well as on the author’s fast486 processor emulation library. The components were developed by TheFlash developer for about a year and have recently been poured into a trunk from a separate branch. Video demonstration of work under the cut. Several harmful bugs, in particular, working with the palette, have not yet been resolved . The palette has been fixed.
    • The UniATA ATA device driver was again improved, a bug was fixed that prevented it from working on systems with 4 gigabytes of RAM.
    • UPD Alex Ionescu promises to organize support for UEFI:




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