Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

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hi

 

>Hi Flamengo, welcome :-)

 

Thanks!

> Can you give more details about the Wing game crash?

 

I thought it could be sound/music but disabling it did nothing. (Could still be, if they "disable" it by merely setting volume to zero but still calling the api)

the trigger could be explosion of some special enemy (some new enemy appearing?), the player or passing stage 1 or game over. Didn't play much. DOS screen gets a screen full of hexadecimals and mentions allegro (I think? or was it djgpp)

>As we already have some EMACS and EMACS has a thing with
>LISP, maybe we already have some LISP hidden in EMACS?

 

yes and no, emacs has eLisp (emacs lisp), which is not ideal to say the least. Mostly for making plugins and small editing related tasks.

 

> That would be called either HX RT (run simple Windows apps
in DOS) or REACTOS

 

I was aware of REACT, which wasn't yet ready at the time, but not HX RT. There is an ongoing thread here mentioning modifying the MM to support running windowsES (I thought win 3.1 wouldnt need anything special.. but win95 would be nice to be able to run).

It has my vote of support :)

 

Cheers,

F

Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM
From: "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

Hi Flamengo, welcome :-)

Can you give more details about the Wing game crash?

As we already have some EMACS and EMACS has a thing with
LISP, maybe we already have some LISP hidden in EMACS?

I vaguely remember some thread topics exist in DOS forums,
but somebody else would have to provide links for you :-)

Regarding UEFI: You normally load a CSM to provide BIOS
interrupts which not only DOS itself but also DOS apps
need. There are some open source CSM, probably with a
somewhat limited hardware support, so you could learn
how this works (probably complex) and see whether you
can set your hardware to UEFI-only boot, use a Linux or
similar boot loader to load an open source CSM and then
load a standard DOS and see whether it actually works...

Regarding UEFI in a different sense: It would be cool to
have GPT support in our kernel. At the moment, only MBR
is supported, which limits DOS to 2 Terabyte disk size.

Regarding the web frameworks and high and low languages
etc. those can get quite complex even to just port, so
I am cautious to say anything about those suggestions.

> ... suggest is including an Amiga emulator... MAME too?

Do you know any for DOS, or any which seem port-friendly?
I guess more emulators at least on ibiblio would not hurt,
but is there an open source Amiga "BIOS" to use with such
an emulator, for example? To avoid license troubles here.
Same for Genesis, SMS, MEKA.

>  -- An even crazier idea: Porting WINE to DOS

That would be called either HX RT (run simple Windows apps
in DOS) or REACTOS (open source Windows clone, shares some
code with Wine for obvious reasons). There even is some DOS
port of DOSBOX which could be useful if the port has sound
drivers for modern hardware and the DOS inside DOSBOX can be
used for games which expect a soundblaster, simulated by it.

No comment on the installer, others know it better than me.

Cheers, Eric



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