Hi all, I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX.
Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work by someone (not me) before it could even be considered for inclusion. First, it cannot even be run at present. The precompiled executables and even diskette versions are present along with the sources. However, the executables must be installed by it’s setup program which writes an user/serial number into the executables. Those executables will not run without that being done. The setup program (and source) are present as well. However apparently, serial numbers are not pre-generated and were created when producing the media. So, that is all the further I got during testing. Someone who has access to old MS C and Assemblers laying around will need to work on this to get it functional. Thankfully, it looks like there are numerous batch files to automate the building process. It is a large codebase and porting it to open source compilers would take someone a very long time. Again, neither will be done be me. As far as I could tell in my limited testing, the following would need done… 1) Update Company/License/Copyright information to reflect the project was released to the public under GNUv3 by the author. 2) Remove or at least disable the user/serial number stuff in the executables. 3) Possibly, forego the requirement of using the setup program. Since 386 is large, complicated and can be used under DOS with or without windows, it may be best that if we ever include a package for it, that the package binaries include the installer. This would permit installing the program and having it perform all the required steps based on the end users system. Any volunteers? :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
