DOS ain't dead

I accidentaly found that David Lindauer still works in his C/C++ compiler Orange.
It is not a native DOS application but works very good with HX-DOS extender.
http://ladsoft.tripod.com/orange_c_compiler.html

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DOS-u-akbar!

> I accidentaly found that David Lindauer still works in his C/C++ compiler
> Orange.
> It is not a native DOS application but works very good with HX-DOS
> extender.
> http://ladsoft.tripod.com/orange_c_compiler.html

Wow, it's really fat now!
occ60411e.zip is 20 MB. occ60411e.zip is 39 MB.
occ60281e.zip is 12 MB. occ60281s.zip is 27 MB. (2017)
occ4125e.zip is 4 MB. occ4125s.zip is 3,9 MB. (2012)

There must have been major enhancements in the last 7 years.

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Forum admin

It is native in my opinion. If a DOS/4G(W) program can be native, so can an HX program. Thanks for the notifiction though. :)

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DOS isn't about why. It's about why not.

> I accidentaly found that David Lindauer still works in his C/C++ compiler
> Orange.
> It is not a native DOS application but works very good with HX-DOS
> extender.
> http://ladsoft.tripod.com/orange_c_compiler.html

Version 6.0.43.1 was released 2019-09-08.
Changes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LADSoft/OrangeC/master/HISTORY.md

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Forum admin

> I accidentaly found that David Lindauer still works in his C/C++ compiler
> Orange.
> It is not a native DOS application but works very good with HX-DOS
> extender.
> http://ladsoft.tripod.com/orange_c_compiler.html

Version 6.0.44.1 was released 2020-04-26.
Changes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LADSoft/OrangeC/master/HISTORY.md

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Forum admin

> It is native in my opinion. If a DOS/4G(W) program can be native, so can an
> HX program.

People forgot about 16-bit native programming. It is very bad, imho (dpmi, for me, never be full native the same as win 3.1/95 - formally they also dos-wrappers).

Sorry!

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Make DOS great again!
Make Russia small again!

I didn't forgot about 16 bit real mode programming, but there are things you can do more efficiently in 32 bit protected mode. When I wrote TSR patches for MPXPlayn I made it in real address mode, but the program I targeted is a 32 bit application. Yet, I can't see any problem here. MPXPlay does things more efficient as it does than it could be as a 16 bit program. Same for internet: I am writing this on the 32 bit Links instead of the 16 bit Arachne. That one was my first DOS web browser, but slow as a nightmare even on an i3 CPU. In my opinion, any size can be useful for different reasons.

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DOS isn't about why. It's about why not.

> This compiler is at version 6.0.45.1 and has now completed Github Milestone 2
> Release Date May 18, 2020