Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411

2024-11-02 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
hiOn Nov 2, 2024, at 3:29 PM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel wrote:Hi Jerome, hi all, thx for this great job! I always admire these FDT versions! Every month you update several commands / files!   Some minor important hints for the next FDT (you already know most of them):   a) bladeenc 0

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411 (rcal)

2024-11-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
So I guess the problem is me going in the .lsm file from: Version: 1.01 to me upgrading to: Version: 1.0.1 and fdnpkg considering that 1.01 > 1.0.1 and frankly at first glance I would agree: 01 is bigger than 0 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411 (rcal)

2024-11-02 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Le sam., 02 nov. 2024 15:28:46 -0400 Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel a écrit > Hi Jerome, hi all, > thx for this great job! I always admire these FDT versions! > Every month you update several commands / files! >   > Some minor important hints for the next FDT (you already know mo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411

2024-11-02 Thread Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hi all, thx for this great job! I always admire these FDT versions! Every month you update several commands / files!   Some minor important hints for the next FDT (you already know most of them):   a) bladeenc 0.94.1 is installed, but "fnpkgk checkupdates" finds 0.94.1a and downlo

[Freedos-devel] fancymines packaging and image file format thoughts

2024-11-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi :-) Our FancyMines fmines package is 29 MB at the moment. Interestingly, the game already uses a custom-made RLE compressed data file format for images, which zips from 17 to 8 MB, while the original BMP images in the source code only zip from 37 to 22 MB. The game is written in freebasic.

[Freedos-devel] freepascal package oddities

2024-11-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! Looking at the 34 MB FPC package, I noticed that: - quite a few go32v2 binaries in the sources (?) are not UPXed - UPX crashes with a failed assertion for some of those and also that: - the units / libraries come as .o and some type of binary files - not sure where the actual source t

[Freedos-devel] dojs package has nested source archive and could be a lot smaller

2024-11-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! Our 49 MB FreeDOS DOJS package contains a sources zip ... which in turn contains ANOTHER sources zip. The latter contains individual source files. I would suggest to remove the nesting, but also to move from ZIP to a solid archive format like 7z which should use less than 2/3 of the ISO and

[Freedos-devel] our curl could use dos version 8.5.0 and shrink to half the size

2024-11-02 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! While checking the duplicate libraries in our CURL 8.4.0, I noticed that there already is CURL 8.5.0 for DOS available: http://mik.dyndns.pro/dos-stuff/bin/ http://mik.dyndns.pro/dos-stuff/src/ Jerome, could you update your FreeDOS package using those? I see that you are behind all update

[Freedos-devel] muefircate: a plan for a BIOS loader for UEFI

2024-11-02 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
Since this is a FAQ, I was surprised to come across this today. https://gitlab.com/tkchia/muefircate It's a fork of the deleted BiEFIrcate There's another fork but it seems inactive: https://github.com/LoopZ/biefircate -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.