That is very good news IMHO, Jeremy!! Sure a thing to wait for, for FreeDOS 1.3 release.
I think it is a meaningful milestone (even if there is not many people running Win3.X that wouldn't do it over MS-DOS), but very relevant all the same. All the best, Aitor On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 08:02, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I thought some of you might enjoy this (others may really dislike it). > Link is to a (posted to YouTube) about 2 minute video of (version > 2043+patches) FreeDOS kernel running Windows 3.1 in Enhanced and > Standard mode. I haven't pushed the changes to the public GitHub > repository yet as there are still some rough edges to fix (all the > changes are technically there, just in the old unstable branch). I > will make a test version (with source) available later this week along > with steps to run Windows. [I need to go to sleep now.] > > https://youtu.be/35OQjLYdvJ0 > (I apologize for anyone that can't view the video - it is just FreeDOS > kernel booting in VirtualBox, me running a bunch of ver /r commands > and WIN along with a dos prompt, and showing both enhanced and > standard mode.) > > For the technical aspect - the changes are minimal to the kernel, > added support for a few int 2F function calls that were never merged > in was about all it took. All significant changes behind a > WIN31SUPPORT #ifdef so doesn't need to be compiled in if unwanted. > > Enjoy, > Jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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