Re: [Freedos-devel] Why games have bad color in VirtualBox

Hello Eric, On at 2021-06-17 17:26 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: while it is great to hear that you are doing a lot of reading about EGA/VGA programming, I would suggest that you use DEBUG to try a few things until you find the first type of palette manipulation which works in another virtual window b

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

Hi Jim, >> Caused by un-initialized variables (immediate death) and >> bad speed caused by bad wait for retrace. Crashes at exit >> are caused by bad exit style depending on from where in >> the game you left it. All fixed in my patched version, >> see my mail to the list about that ;-) >> > > Di

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel and FreeCOM command.com updates

Hi Jeremy, > Unfortunately that is a side effect of git, it doesn't set time stamps. > I find it very annoying but haven't found a good solution. I have no > desire to manually set timestamps. If anyone has suggestions for how to > get git to set timestamps on files, I would be greatful. I cur

Re: [Freedos-devel] List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

(Eric sent this off-list to me and Jerome, but it seems like it should be discussed more generally so I'm replying to the list) We used to include Errata (lists of bugs/breaking issues) in some of the previous FreeDOS distributions. Doing a quick check on Ibiblio, we provided Errata [distributio

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

As Jim is moving the discussion to freedos-devel, I am also forwarding my newest reply to him & Jerome, slightly shortened. Note that Jeremy is fixing the ERRORLEVEL regression in the source code already :-) Cheers, Eric Hallo :-) Jim, please check the MBR versus "install commandments" topic

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:38 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > As Jim is moving the discussion to freedos-devel, I > am also forwarding my newest reply to him & Jerome, > slightly shortened. Note that Jeremy is fixing the > ERRORLEVEL regression in the source code already :-) > FYI that this ERRORLEVEL

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

Eric, > […] > Do not get me started about your convoluted installer then ;-) It is only as complex as it needs to be to support the features it provides. ;-) Things like multi-language support, themes and advanced mode in a batch based program tends to make things a little more complex than a s

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

Hi Jerome, of course the installer is complex because it is more USEFUL that way, but loading a cache is useful as well and that is a piece of complexity you do not have to write yourself :-) You simply have to dare to use it in the installer. As have lots of users on their installed system for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

> But, since you mention it. It may actually be better to not load > HIMEMX, remove the DOS HIGH stuff and load all drivers low. one of your worst ideas. a) running FreeDOS without XMS leaves ~140KB less memory for your installer, which even today has problems with 'not enough memory' b) DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

> On Jun 18, 2021, at 5:23 PM, tom ehlert wrote: > >  >> But, since you mention it. It may actually be better to not load >> HIMEMX, remove the DOS HIGH stuff and load all drivers low. > > one of your worst ideas. Only a passing thought. I think the negative side effects of doing it are nu

[Freedos-devel] Re : Wirth compilers (was: 2 diffrent index of ibiblio?)

Looks like Modula-2 could come part of GCC (GNU compiler collection): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modula-2-GCC-Mainline-Hope-2021 That would be great!___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://li

[Freedos-devel] easily create a gcc cross compiler for compiling C on Linux making exe to be run on DJGPP

I'd like to mention: https://github.com/jwt27/build-gcc Have worked great for me. Made an hello world! in Linux for DJGPP.___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] easily create a gcc cross compiler for compiling C on Linux making exe to be run on DJGPP

And when cross-compiling on Linux for running on DJGPP you probably want: ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp when calling configure. Details at: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation.html__

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re : Wirth compilers (was: 2 diffrent index of ibiblio?)

On 6/18/2021 6:00 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: Looks like Modula-2 could come part of GCC (GNU compiler collection): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modula-2-GCC-Mainline-Hope-2021