Re: [Freedos-devel] Wayback

2024-10-14 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
Terrible thing to say. Who will play dos games and on retro machines if you're not around? Hacks are a part of the computing world and always will be. On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, 7:03 am Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel, < [email protected]> wrote: > I just don't get it. What are tho

Re: [Freedos-devel] GeoWorks

2024-09-30 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
ozone is quite well developed using widgets and an internal compiler to test them live. It even has a registry database but the issue is the source code is 20 years old, uses an old as hell version of gcc and c89. While it can support a multithreaded kernel, c89 and the threading code is not comp

Re: [Freedos-devel] Suggestions Many future DOS Flavors and uses...

2024-07-07 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
Why make anything then? Lol. It doesn't matter how trivial if it's fun the chances are someone else is keen to do it. Bear in mind that an x86 watch would be more funny than practical. Psu on your back with a bunch of cables running up your arm lol. Cyberpunk 1996 kinda look to it. On Tue, 2 Ju

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

2024-06-10 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
yes of course. Well aware. It would be funny to see Microsoft Sue someone for a 30 year old os shell though. Lol. On Tue, 11 June 2024, 9:43 am Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel, < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Chelson a via Freedos-devel wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

2024-06-10 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
No, win11 is not what I'm suggesting. Far from it. Im talking about the recently leaked 3.x code as a reference to start an opensource version of the Windows 3.1 shell. I played around with the react os code about 15 years ago to test out what the cmd was capable of doing for running dos applicat

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

2024-06-10 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
Yes obviously the legal side of things prevents using that code, it's also a good reference of how it all works and you could build from scratch. If you just want to make programs just use visual basic like I did back in the day to make new programs.. Quite limited by today's standards. Or take t

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16-bit Windows development

2024-06-08 Thread Chelson a via Freedos-devel
Yes, get the official code. The current kernel has the 3.51 NT kernel. On Tue, 4 June 2024, 9:54 am Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel, < [email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience with systems programming for 16-bit > (DOS-based) versions of Windows? > > Do you k