On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Right now, I'm using my laptop. I do have a RUFUS USB stick lying
> around if you want me to test under raw FreeDOS, but I'm not doing
> anything unusual with drives. In other words, my testing is limited in
> usefulness. But I have been playing
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> "Fast" is subjective (unless you mean compile-time speed, which I'm
> assuming here). There are too many diverse x86 machines (with
> different speeds) to call anything universally fast anymore.
>
I was referring to both compile time (PowerBASIC
There's also the DRIVES.COM that ships with my DOS USB drivers (available at
http://bretjohnson.us). It's quite a bit more "techie" than the others, in
that it actually shows you the information stored in the various internal DOS
tables, such as device driver memory addresses and unit numbers (
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:56:39 +0100, Mercury Thirteen
wrote:
> Feedback is welcome!
First of all, the functions TrimLeft$ and TrimRight$ are not called at
all, so you can remove them to save a few bytes (QB will not automatically
remove them).
And +1 for prefixing constants with "k". :D
J
Hi,
I am pleased to announce that the first public version (0.9 beta) of my
AGUI user interface library is available for download. AGUI is a fairly
complete GUI library for DOS, Windows and Linux. It is based on the Allegro
game development library. Its primary purpose is to develop applications
f
On 12/23/2014 7:47 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
> I don't know how thorough you want to be, but msdos 5+, and some versions of
> both opendos and ptsdos, you can actually have more than 26 drives, up to 32
> if I remember correctly. I saw (once) which characters they used for the
> additional 6 dri
On Wednesday, December 24, 2014, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 12/23/2014 7:47 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
> > I don't know how thorough you want to be, but msdos 5+, and some
> versions of both opendos and ptsdos, you can actually have more than 26
> drives, up to 32 if I remember correctly. I saw (once)
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014, sparky4 wrote:
> I am making a new dos game with the help of a few friends!
>
> wanna help out?
>
> search "sparky4 project 16" on github ~
>
>
This appears to be the correct URL:
https://github.com/sparky4/16
I know it's early in development, but I couldn't fin
