Hi, Wouldn't you reinvent the wheel with that? 32 bit DOS applications rely on a DOS extender and run okay that way, and to run 32bit WIndows applications, well, that's literally one of the purposes of ReactOS. What got me thinking was when I could no longer run Borland Delphi on Windows, because 16bit. Up to Windows XP and to a degree Windows 7, you could still run old win3x (and even most win 2x) applications natively. In windows 10 that's gone for good, which is why I thought, with FreeDOS being by far the best platform for legacy software, this might be something worth looking at.
But maybe that's just last century me ;) Cheers, Danilo On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 at 02:35, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a bit of FYI despite the project being nowhere near ready to go as of > yet: there is a small group of us working on moving DOS into the 32-bit realm > in the form of the Night Kernel. As part of that journey, we eventually want > a compatibility layer to make running Windows 3.x executables possible. > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, December 24, 2020 6:52 PM, Danilo Pecher > [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Eric, > The ReactOS/Wine combo was what got me thinking in the first place. > ReactOS was from the start meant to replicate WIndows NT though, which > isn't quite what I had in mind, as that isn't quite the 16 bit world > in which FreeDOS exists. Wine would be a starting point, as that > definitely has 16 bit remnants, like WING. Back many moons ago I used > some of that source to port Microprose's Grand Prix manager to SDL > under Linux. > My idea was more along the line of rebuilding Windows 3.11, Best > windows ever, even if Jim will probably disagree ;) > Cheers, Danilo > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
