DOS ain't dead

Really serious of technical issue? (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 10.11.2007, 06:33

> > Sorry but I saw most of the discussion not necessary.
> >
> > Some guys always insist UPX not safe, then you can unpack it, delete
> UPX
> > from your hard disk and feeling happy.
> I like this packer, but I have never seen DOS SYS drivers packed with this
> packer before drivers of Jack... His drivers are small enough (moreover,
> tiny) even without UPX, which is very actual for "heavy" DJGPP executables
> or WIN32 PE files.
>

Heh, the latest Dungeon Crawl ("Tiles" version) .EXE for Win32 is over 30 MB (and not UPX'd either, only ZIP'd).

> > If you think UIDE/XMGR have problem after packing, don't use it and
> delete
> > it from your hard disk, why waste time typing long long message for
> If I see such a problem, I'll simply assemble non-packed version from ASM
> sources (MASM 5.10 or Pravetz-16 386 ASM from Lucho).
>

Don't forget that WASM from OpenWatcom works too (thanks to japheth for telling us).

> > When everyone have no UIDE to use, those guys are happy?
> I see that you have removed drivers.zip from your site. That's a pity :( -
> those forum flamewars aren't really important. E.g. MS Windows is often
> called "must die" or "crap" but Bill Gates releases it year to year...

Yeah, very confusing. I mean, I don't see any possibility (or harm, in theory) of anybody associating rr with JRE. But whatever. (Does this mean Lucho and I can't share the drivers on our distros? Granted, Lucho is more of an "ally" than some random guy like me, but still ....)

> P.S. I perfectly understand that modern DOS is made of hacks itself, and
> UPX in SYS file isn't the most dangerous :).

NANSI is also UPX'd, and Eric gave a similar warning about crashing if not enough room was available. But so far, I've had no issues (just let it load normally from FDCONFIG.SYS). And yes, I must be one of the few who still want to save 1k from their floppy.

Complete thread:

• Really serious of technical issue? - johnsonlam, 09.11.2007, 18:53 (Miscellaneous)
  • Really serious of technical issue? - lucho, 09.11.2007, 19:20
  • Really serious of technical issue? - avoskov, 09.11.2007, 19:43
    • Really serious of technical issue? - Rugxulo, 10.11.2007, 06:33
      • No Diskette Issues. - Jack R. Ellis, 10.11.2007, 07:06
  • Really serious of technical issue? - sol, 09.11.2007, 20:20
    • Really serious of technical issue? - Khusraw, 09.11.2007, 23:46
      • Really serious of technical issue? - sol, 10.11.2007, 02:57
        • Really serious of technical issue? - Steve, 10.11.2007, 03:00
        • Greetings! - Jack, 10.11.2007, 10:09
          • English language - avoskov, 10.11.2007, 11:25
            • English language - Jack, 10.11.2007, 11:33
          • Greetings! - Steve, 10.11.2007, 12:16
          • Right Back Atcha, My Boy! - Jack, 10.11.2007, 12:33
            • Right Back Atcha, My Boy! - Steve, 10.11.2007, 13:22
              • Call for censorship - lucho, 10.11.2007, 14:07
                • Call for censorship - Steve, 10.11.2007, 14:14
                  • Call for censorship - lucho, 10.11.2007, 14:33
                    • Call for censorship - Steve, 10.11.2007, 15:08
                      • Call for censorship - lucho, 10.11.2007, 15:17
                        • Call for censorship - Steve, 10.11.2007, 15:36
                • Call for censorship - Steve, 11.11.2007, 00:32
        • Really serious of technical issue? - Khusraw, 10.11.2007, 11:15