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FPC 16-bit (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 16.05.2013, 10:15

I really think that DOS 16-bit native version of FPC is not needed - with assumption that we have good and reliable DOS 32-bit version which can cross-compile into 16-bit.
All FPC code does not expect limited memory block size so adaptation would be extremely complicated and the result would be very, very buggy.

However if somebody really wants to run FPC on 16-bit machine it should be possible and not so complicated to use some kind od 386 emulation on 8086 processor.
I don't know if such emulator exists but such emulator shouldn't be so complicated as someone could expect because only some very basic emulation of PC would be sufficient (no need for graphic modes, sound, etc.)

Anyway - I hope that 16-bit FPC will not suffer by bugs present in GO32V2 target.
Marcov, have you read this my post? http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?...amp;page=0&category=0&order=last_answer

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Complete thread:

• FPC 16-bit - marcov, 26.04.2013, 09:41 (Announce)
  • FPC 16-bit - Laaca, 26.04.2013, 16:14
    • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 26.04.2013, 22:30
  • FPC 16-bit - DOS386, 28.04.2013, 14:53
    • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 29.04.2013, 10:17
      • FPC 16-bit - Laaca, 29.04.2013, 12:52
        • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 30.04.2013, 17:36
        • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 01.05.2013, 19:47
          • FPC 16-bit (80186 cpu + NASM info) - Rugxulo, 03.05.2013, 10:40
            • FPC 16-bit (80186 cpu + NASM info) - marcov, 03.05.2013, 15:10
      • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 30.04.2013, 14:00
        • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 30.04.2013, 17:15
          • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 01.05.2013, 03:12
            • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 03.05.2013, 23:27
              • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 06.05.2013, 17:43
                • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 08.05.2013, 23:39
                  • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 19:00
                    • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 15.05.2013, 21:27
                      • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 15.05.2013, 22:44
                        • FPC 16-bit - Laaca, 16.05.2013, 10:15
                          • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 16.05.2013, 20:35
                          • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 16.05.2013, 20:46
                            • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 16.05.2013, 21:26
                        • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 16.05.2013, 21:19
                          • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 17.05.2013, 07:52
                            • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 05.06.2013, 13:34
                              • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 06.06.2013, 00:03
                                • FPC 16-bit - marcov, 01.07.2013, 22:29
                                  • FPC 16-bit - Rugxulo, 07.07.2013, 01:52
          • P5 (PCOM/PINT) with FPC 2.7.1 snapshot - Rugxulo, 03.05.2013, 10:53
            • P5 (PCOM/PINT) with FPC 2.7.1 snapshot - marcov, 03.05.2013, 15:04