DOS ain't dead

DJGPP love Window$ ? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 15.09.2013, 20:08

> Since I try to port these programs to DOS this is a big problem for me.
> Even programs that used to support djgpp drop djgpp support now since they
> see no reason for supporting djgpp any more and probably can no longer test
> it.

Anybody who says they can't test is a liar. We have several ways of testing (RUFUS, DOSEMU, VirtualBox). The simple truth is they don't care (or maybe just aren't experienced enough to actually make it work).

> I just did s speed test on my PC compiling complete Dillo:
> Windows XP DOS box: 2 Minutes, 9 Seconds
> Real Mode DOS: 24 Minutes, 43 Seconds.

There's no way this is optimal. Like I said, I compiled p7zip much faster atop a RAM disk (compiler included) with SFNs than even with DOSEMU under Linux.

But I've never rebuilt Dillo, so I don't know how easy it would be. But it certainly shouldn't be anywhere near that slow, trust me.

> I tried now to copy djgpp and the dillo source to an xmsdisk. Howver, that
> did not work since I could not get doslfn to support long file names on the
> xmsdisk.

Try Jack's RDISK, that's what I use, and it works with DOSLFN fine.

Complete thread:

• DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 14:07
  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 14.09.2013, 18:08
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 18:48
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 07:38
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 09:10
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 12:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:54
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 14.09.2013, 20:36
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 15.09.2013, 09:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:49
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:32
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:53
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:14
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:08
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - RayeR, 16.09.2013, 13:45
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 16.09.2013, 20:56
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 01.10.2013, 08:25
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 16.09.2013, 19:58
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 02.10.2013, 22:52
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 05.10.2013, 22:50
              • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 00:55
                • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 01:59
                  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 20.10.2013, 21:28
                    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 22.10.2013, 01:17