Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Charles! On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:09 PM Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > I wrote my first DOS program in 1984 on my IBM PC. I loved that keyboard > back then but now it makes so much noise. Anyway, I am wanting to set up a > dev environment to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread tom ehlert
> A more "generally nice" and less "futuristic" thing would > be to add GPT partition scheme support to our kernel :-) supporting GPT partition scheme would actually be easy. unfortunately it would be almost useless as 'BIOS's booting GPT disks will only boot UEFI boot methods. > Note that tho

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Charles, welcome to FreeDOS! > Should I use Borland C or Turbo C++ or what. What version? http://www.freedos.org/contribute/ recommends OpenWatcom C. I suggest any current version, but preferably the DOS one. You can use Borland / Turbo if you happen to have it or if you want to compile thi

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel
I wrote my first DOS program in 1984 on my IBM PC. I loved that keyboard back then but now it makes so much noise. Anyway, I am wanting to set up a dev environment to develop for FreeDOS. I was hoping to get some direction from the group on how to get started.  Should I use Borland C or Turbo C+