DOS ain't dead - Japanese DOS tools

Laaca

Czech republic,
09.10.2011, 16:39

Japanese DOS tools (Announce)

I accidentaly found a page with LunarEMM memory manager and many other DOS tools. They all are from Japan and have documentation only in japan.
I also sent email to author but got no response.
Anyway, here is the link: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037191/Pt/index.html

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DOS-u-akbar!

roytam

10.10.2011, 02:27

@ Laaca

Japanese DOS tools

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> I accidentaly found a page with LunarEMM memory manager and many other DOS
> tools. They all are from Japan and have documentation only in japan.
> I also sent email to author but got no response.
> Anyway, here is the link:
> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037191/Pt/index.html

The tool listed in that page are for PC-9801/9821 which is not IBM-PC compatible(they call IBM-PC compatible machine as "DOS/V" in the time)

bocke

15.10.2011, 12:04

@ roytam

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> > I accidentaly found a page with LunarEMM memory manager and many other
> DOS
> > tools. They all are from Japan and have documentation only in japan.
> > I also sent email to author but got no response.
> > Anyway, here is the link:
> > http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037191/Pt/index.html
>
> The tool listed in that page are for PC-9801/9821 which is not IBM-PC
> compatible(they call IBM-PC compatible machine as "DOS/V" in the time)

What code page did Microsoft use for Japan? I remember getting some old DOS tools in Japanese, but instead of kanji, I got garbage. Well, hypotetical question only. I wouldn't understand it eiter way.

roytam

16.10.2011, 04:43

@ bocke

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> > > I accidentaly found a page with LunarEMM memory manager and many other
> > DOS
> > > tools. They all are from Japan and have documentation only in japan.
> > > I also sent email to author but got no response.
> > > Anyway, here is the link:
> > > http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA037191/Pt/index.html
> >
> > The tool listed in that page are for PC-9801/9821 which is not IBM-PC
> > compatible(they call IBM-PC compatible machine as "DOS/V" in the time)
>
> What code page did Microsoft use for Japan? I remember getting some old DOS
> tools in Japanese, but instead of kanji, I got garbage. Well, hypotetical
> question only. I wouldn't understand it eiter way.

CP932.
In DOS they use their Font Driver and Display Driver to switch to graphic mode and display katakana, hiragana, and kanji.