DOS ain't dead

Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.03.2011, 01:09

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I've just stumbled on this thread, and would like to make some "for the
> record" comments:

Please do, my horrible interpretation was from an outsider's view, admittedly flawed.

> divergence of commercially available host platforms from my ideals brought
> me to the decision not to continue maintaining commercial releases.

Win64 hates DOS. Vista 32-bit wasn't much better.

> I still offer the tools for sale to those who need support.
> For everyone else I've made pre-installed .ZIPs available on my
> site for free.

Cool, thanks.

> Micro-C is ... a very useful tool for DOS system development.

Indeed, sorry to (accidentally) trivialize it. I've used it for two (very small) utils of mine due to its virtues of small size, 8086+, easy to use. The problems come into play when you need "longint" (workarounds exist but non-standard) or bigger models than tiny or small. In other words, harder to port existing code than write from scratch (obviously??). Expecting it to work with big things like the FreeDOS kernel ("compact") is too much. But for normal stuff, it's great.

> Regarding the FreeDOS incident ...

I know, they are control freaks. I wish they'd (finally) allocate some more freakin' FTP admins for iBiblio's mirror, but they haven't. Jim has been (mostly) a decent head honcho, so I won't complain, not even a little, but I know some people had their disagreements with him over the years. Like I said, he's been "away" for two years but is back rewriting the installer. Pat's in charge now but haven't heard much (of worth) lately. It's pretty heavily hibernating, almost dead you could say, but it still exists.

Long story short, feel free to (re)contact Pat now as I'm pretty sure he'd be up for hosting MCPC somewhere in whatever manner you see fit.

> Finally... in recent months, I've been slowly dredging up and posting some
> of the other DOS in-house tools and projects that I've developed over the
> years. Some of these may be of interest to members of this forum. They
> range
> from trivial utilities to complex applications, and can be found at:
> www.dunfield.com/doswid/index.htm
> These will also show you the kinds of things that MCPC can do - almost
> everything on that page was developed and built with Micro-C/PC.

"A poor carpenter blames his tools" ... yeah, well, I'm not half the carpenter you are! So thanks, DOS nerds like us need all the help we can get!

Complete thread:

• Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Khusraw, 10.02.2011, 15:14 (Announce)
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - RayeR, 10.02.2011, 16:21
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - rr, 10.02.2011, 22:47
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 02:10
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - ecm, 12.02.2011, 13:00
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 20:48
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - marcov, 14.02.2011, 11:04
    • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - dave11, 02.03.2011, 00:01
      • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - Rugxulo, 02.03.2011, 01:09
  • Dunfield MICRO-C 3.23 - roytam, 26.02.2015, 04:43