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Trubo Oberon (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 24.07.2026, 21:34

> Do not use kernel 2046. It has some bugs. It even does not run Volkov
> commander 4.99. (the preious kernel 2044 has no problem with it)

Even using FD kernel 2044, it works like the first time and never again. And other binaries (e.g. his TASM, TLINK) seem picky too. For now, it's best to stick to DOSBox-X.

I did play with TASM and TLINK a bit. Granted, it's probably not meant to be generally useful, but a modified PSR Invaders (INV-MINI.ASM for MiniNasm, Start -> start, global start, comment out ORG 100h) will assemble with a pointless 3-byte JMP at the beginning (easily fixed with *nix dd). But I haven't worked around his lack of optimization for (CMP|SUB|ADD)word [myvar], signed byte. But it should (probably) match, if that is fixed. Seems to take 12 secs. to assemble under DOSBox-X. So that's cool.

Still an interesting project. I hope he keeps working on it.

Complete thread:

• Trubo Oberon - rr, 08.07.2026, 21:24 (Announce)
  • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 15.07.2026, 03:18
    • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 16.07.2026, 20:54
    • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 20.07.2026, 07:54
      • Trubo Oberon - Laaca, 21.07.2026, 23:05
        • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 23.07.2026, 07:15
          • Trubo Oberon - Laaca, 23.07.2026, 18:57
            • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 24.07.2026, 21:34
              • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 27.07.2026, 07:52
          • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 04.08.2026, 13:16
            • Trubo Oberon - Rugxulo, 31.08.2026, 09:49