DOS ain't dead

not releasing HACKWRAP.SYS (yet) (Announce)

posted by Ninho , 10.12.2009, 13:40
(edited by Ninho on 10.12.2009, 15:20)

Dear Fellow Members!

I guess it's time I gave some news; I apologise for the delay.

> Full release still needs the documentation, but for your sake I have
> uploaded the (hopefully) stable binary driver:

The documenting process has suffered, instead I have been testing this and researching other, possibly better, approaches.

While I am reasonably confident the test version HACKWRAP 1.0 is WAD, and even encouraging continuation of all of the voluntary testing [keep trying to break it! DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE!], it won't be publicly released as is :=(

I've come with different approaches which need to be developped and studied with care.

Also, Geoff Chappell has cast a doubt on an aspect of the present hack. Cf. RR's recent message & my reply in the old thread. I'm not convinced yet, but if Geoff's right, (and granted, he knows his DOS internals!) then I have to modify the way the present HACKWRAP works.

In any event further work is needed to eventually produce a better HACKWRAP based either on the present design or the possibly better one I've devised, more on that is due in another forum section.


I must apologise for optimistically calling this version "release". calling

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Ninho

Complete thread:

• releasing HACKWRAP.SYS - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 20:43 (Announce)
  • not releasing HACKWRAP.SYS (yet) - Ninho, 10.12.2009, 13:40