DOS ain't dead

Hi! New version of my software:
(http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/)

Blocek 1.35
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* Now can work in banked modes too! (useful for running in various emulated environments inluding Windows XP)
- Prior versions could with some screen drivers wrong download fonts from VRAM.

VenomGFX 8.31
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8.31
- Fixed bug causing inproper loading of 8x8 VGA font with some
display drivers
- Fixed bug in banked mode version of PutHCsprite introduced in 8.3
- Fixed crash in banked mode occuring in case when mouse interrupt
was called inside graphics routines
* Added clipping info into Putchar_FN function and made it compatible
with Wokna32 v1.x

8.3
+ Now you can create RLE maps to sprites to significantly (approx 3x)
speed up PutHCsprite and PutClippedHCsprite procedures
(works even in banked VGA screens)
+ Mouse cursors now use the RLE acceleration
* minor fixes in sprite routines
* banked VGA variants of LineHorz and LineVert are now fully
optimized
* PutSprite_and_clear now has clipping and works for banked VGA too
* PutSpriteRegion now has clipping and works for banked VGA too

Also, if you are interrested, I wrote a unit for VGA font generator handling in text mode. It provides quite unique functions like 512 chars at the same time, char height setting and many others.
(http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/mimoza.rar)

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DOS-u-akbar!

Blocek and Kasmar has spelling and grammar errors.

I released a small update of Bloček and Kašmár.
Download from http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz

Except two typos I fixed charmap in both programs - Bloček and Kašmár.

Besides that I tried very hard to track and fix hardly reproduceable crash when loading big files. This problem occurs only with compilation by FPC 2.x.x. I was not able to reliable fix this behaviour and I suspect some problem with peephole optimizer in FPC 2.x.x - I think it sometimes "forgets" to include segment change prefix (from DS to FS) when accessing DOS memory.

deleted user mentioned some wrong char definition in LATIN216.CH and LATIN28 files but I do not see any problem.

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DOS-u-akbar!

The forum software ?my little forum? cannot handle HTML entries so it prints out as &#xxx;. Please update the forum software to phpBB 3 so it handles Unicode.

> The forum software ?my little forum? cannot handle HTML entries so it
> prints out as &#xxx;.

You're right.

> Please update the forum software to phpBB 3 so it
> handles Unicode.

I'll stick with "mlf", because I've already tried all the other forum software in the past. Most only supply a board view, which I don't like.

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Forum admin

Please add character rendering support for the following glyphs.

SPACES
Standard Glyph
Picture Glyph

PRIVATE USE CHARACTERS
Standard Glyph
Picture Glyph
Decimal
Hexadecimal

Do not use my little forum because it is unable to handle HTML entries. phpBB 3 can handle Unicode.

> > The forum software ?my little forum? cannot handle HTML entries so it
> > prints out as &#xxx;.
>
> You're right.
>
> > Please update the forum software to phpBB 3 so it
> > handles Unicode.
>
> I'll stick with "mlf", because I've already tried all the other forum
> software in the past. Most only supply a board view, which I don't like.

hack mlf up not to encode "&" twice is enough.

Please encode the ampersand (&). phpBB allows using Unicode HTML entries but my little forum is unable to handle Unicode HTML entries.

You want Blocek translated into Hungarian and German languages.

Hello all!

I announce a new version of Blocek, now it reached version 1.37
First af all I have to notify you that the files are not loaded into usuall site laaca-mirror.ic.cz because of technical problems on this server. (This server is still worse and worse).

I hope I will be able to upload the files there later but so far use these links: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/blocek.rar and http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/wokna32.rar

Changes:
1.37
- Fixed conflict between DOS national keyboard driver and Blocek's internal keyboard driver. ("dead keys" watched by DOS was "stealed" and not processed by internal driver)
- Fixed wrong displaying of text cursor in some situations. (this bug became more severe in previous version)
+ Now allows to define keys which are "semi-capslock dependent"
(like éÉ/2 in czech keyboard driver)
* keyboard definition files are now much more user friendly so it is easier to define new ones
+ hungarian keyboard layout

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DOS-u-akbar!

> I announce a new version of Blocek, now it reached version 1.37
> First af all I have to notify you that the files are not loaded into
> usuall site laaca-mirror.ic.cz because of technical problems on this
> server. (This server is still worse and worse).
>
> I hope I will be able to upload the files there later but so far use these
> links: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/blocek.rar and
> http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/wokna32.rar

I assume the rest of the files (venom, fonty, etc.) are the same as last time. Anyways, I uploaded these two to below:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/blocek/

Previous versions are still there:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/blocek/old/1.36b-7zip/