Y2KFix copyright 2000 Juan Paolo L. Carballo Abstract Y2KFix is a 250 byte year 2000 corrective TSR for pre-pentium era PC's with non-compliant BIOSes. It does this by hooking into the timer interrupt and staying in memory. From then on, all calls from the real time clock are checked for a date change of 19xx and corrected. History You might think that it's way too far from December 31, 1999 to make use of this program. But try to estimate the number of units cranked out since the 286. Now don't say "Maybe a thousand or so are left", because BIOSes made in 1997 still were not compliant. I should know, I have an AMD 133MHz 586 with an AMI BIOS and it did not pass the NSTL's YMark2000 test. Besides, the NSTL no longer has that test for download. Y2KFix is one of the utilities under the FreeDOS Project. The FreeDOS project is a collaborative effort to build a free Disk Operating System. When we say "Free" we mean free as in free to use and not just free of charge. Licensing Y2KFix is licensed under the GNU GPL. We like to say it is copylefted rather than copyrighted. This term awards the right for YOU to download the program and it's source code, and to use the source code in any way you wish! This is true provided that when a person gets a copy of this code and any enhancements you may have made to it, he will also receive the same rights as you did. Warranty The author disclaims all warranties, espressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this program. Revisions Fri 02-04-00 10:28:36 jplc v1.0a - Optimized code file size = 364b Decreased size from 432 bytes to the ff: Segment Region Total Type 0B15C 1 32 (0K) Environment 0DF47 2 384 (0K) Program Total Size: 416 (0K) Fri 02-04-00 19:41:44 jplc v1.1a - Further decreased com file size to 309 bytes. Zapped the environment. Segment Region Total Type 0E73E 3 384 (0K) Program Total Size: 384 (0K) Sat 02-05-00 14:59:39 jplc v1.2 - Even further decreased com file size to 259 bytes. Then to 257 bytes. Heck it's just the text now that's bloating it. Sun 09-03-00 03:55:43 jplc v1.3 - First release under GNU GPL. DOWNLOAD Y2KFix version 1.3 http://www.mydestiny.net/~jplc/archive/y2kf-1_3.zip Contact Info user = "jplcarballo"; at = "@"; site = "eudoramail.com"; document.write(''); Content Copyright © 2000 by Juan Paolo L. Carballo unless otherwise indicated. All other trademarks and copyrights on this page are property of their respective owners.