At this blog you will be able to follow the development of Costa. Every now and then I will post about the current status of the project, tell news about Costa, and talk a little about future goals. Atom feed is available, for those who want to keep posted.
Over the past month, I have been working on optimizing a key part of Costa - the launcher, COSTA.EXE. The launcher is the program you run when you want to start Costa. It stays in memory at all times, including when running external programs such as games or DOS utilities, and because of this, it’s absolutely vital to keep it as small as possible to preserve memory for other programs.
Today, I’m rounding up the year with one final release of Costa in 2024, version 1.8.0.
Some people have picked up on Costa and have spread to various parts of the internet, and I figured I’d write a post linking to some of the places I’ve found mentions of Costa online - both to showcase them, and to link back to those sites as a “thank you” for mentioning my hobby project.
Today marks the release of a minor update to Costa, version 1.7.5. No major features are included, but there’s one new feature that I’m sure will be appreciated.
I’ve spent a good part of today testing Costa on a whole slew of operating systems - everything from MS-DOS 3.31 up to PC-DOS 2000. Costa worked perfectly on most of them, but I did have to update the system requirements.
