you are correctAMD Geode is indeed x86...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)
on the subject of porting FreeDOS to XO, one would have to write some
sort of graphical layer since there is no (S)VGA standard
implementedin fact, the graphical controller is embedded in the
Geode ch
Rar32 is a win32 console mode applicationso, of course it does not
run on pure DOS like FreeDOSthe sfx module is indeed very cool...
i always tought that the LFN support has to do with loading the driver
and the driver makes the magic of returning LFN names to the callee of
the reading fun
well...i'm not exactly an expert in the subject but i've noticed that freepascal suports nasm output...and nasm can generate 16bit code...not sure if it is 286 real or protected mode code, altough it seems to be real mode (i've seen people writing bootloaders with nasm)
doesn't this fits the needs
