DOS ain't dead

AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire (Announce)

posted by marcov, 01.01.2011, 13:02

> I never built the DOS compiler (failed) nor IDE (never tried) nor know
> anything about DPMI exceptions, plus my new-found Pascal skills are low. I
> thought you implied that these were deal breakers?? Or (better) you only
> need help with testing and formal releases? Color me skeptical.

Well, this is the whole point about the current dos releases. Everybody wants to help or give expert advice, and nobody wants to be responsible. (either lacking motivation or skill)

Slowly, win9x is getting in the same category. There is currently some discussion going on about killing off win9x. Or more precisely, just work if it is NT only, and see if win9x+MSLU will eat it.

The amount of unicode usage is greatly increasing (driven by Lazarus' decision to consider every string utf-8), and the constant win9x hacks are getting annoying.

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 15.10.2010, 23:25 (Announce)
  • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 16.10.2010, 04:28
    • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 18.10.2010, 20:32
      • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 18.10.2010, 23:36
        • FPC 2.4.2RC1 -- DJGPP Binutils - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 09:46
          • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 14:27
            • GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 22:33
              • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 22:57
                • GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 00:35
                  • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 20.10.2010, 00:40
            • GPL source hosting requirement - marcov, 20.10.2010, 09:47
              • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 15:47
                • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 16:36
                  • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 22.10.2010, 05:14
                    • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - DOS386, 23.10.2010, 09:21
                      • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.10.2010, 10:16
                • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:15
                  • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 15:05
                    • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:23
                      • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:29
                        • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 25.11.2010, 11:55
                          • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 25.12.2010, 12:39
                            • AdvanceZip / BinUtils / CMT Solitaire / DOS DEATH / LZMA - DOS386, 26.12.2010, 08:04
                            • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 00:40
                              • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 05:47
                                • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 13:02
                                  • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 14:03
                                    • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Laaca, 01.01.2011, 15:12
                                      • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 16:56
                                    • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 17:46
                                      • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 03.01.2011, 09:44
                                        • BUG - DOS386, 08.03.2011, 14:37
                                          • BUG - FPC 2.5.1 snapshot - Rugxulo, 08.03.2011, 22:40
                                          • BUG - Japheth, 10.03.2011, 12:17
                                          • BUG - Laaca, 10.03.2011, 12:31
                                            • BUG - DOS386, 03.05.2011, 09:48
        • UPX-UCL 3.07 - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 03:44
        • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 04.11.2010, 09:49
          • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 08.11.2010, 22:27
            • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 10.11.2010, 20:38
              • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Laaca, 11.11.2010, 00:06
              • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2010, 04:03
              • FPC 2.4.2 (final) released - Rugxulo, 14.11.2010, 20:11
                • "for .. in" - Rugxulo, 24.11.2010, 01:08
          • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 15.11.2010, 22:36
            • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13
              • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Laaca, 19.11.2010, 11:10
                • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 14:52
                  • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00
                    • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 14:43
                      • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:21
                        • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 16:08
                          • CWSDPMI r7 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:03