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ROSTheFuture
Member #2,775
September 2002
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I know I'm joining this "converstation" a little late, but personally, I've been having very good success with developing projects in Dev-C++ (MinGW) then taking the exact files, copying them to my Win98 box, and compile with DJGPP for DOS. I was actually surprised at the fact that I had to change NO code to port from Windows to DOS. Yeah for Allegro's portability. Anyway, this way you (or your clients, if you compile both) can choose between DOS and Windows.
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emoremor
Member #2,667
August 2002
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DOS is dead. I mourn it too, but it is dead. FreeDOS can't rescue it. Nobody can. Leave it in windows. |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: DOS is dead. It's alive and kicking on my 486. |
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Wer fu
Member #1,084
March 2001
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DOS isn't dead yet... Many company is still using it for their comtability system, for robotic uses ad many other applications. And saying DOS is dead would be a lie as Win95, Win98 and WinME(I think, not sure) are based on DOS. Don't forget there is still old good 486 running on DOS and Win3.1... You can run Win9X or Linux on them but it will not be a kickass configuration. A good DOS configuration is more stable and more powerfull on a 486 than any windows or linux for a normal user playing old DOS apps. The goal of FreeDOS isn't to resurect DOS, it's to continue the developement of DOS as M$ doesn't work on DOS anymore. I personnaly think we should design an ultra powerfull DOS runnning in protected mode or V86 mode. But it need a lot of knowledge of the 32 bits assembly and I'm still a newbie in it. But i'll like to fournish idea for it
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: I personnaly think we should design an ultra powerfull DOS runnning in protected mode or V86 mode. But it need a lot of knowledge of the 32 bits assembly and I'm still a newbie in it. But i'll like to fournish idea for it I was thinking along similar lines - I'd need to get a good book on protected mode assembly programming, which I don't think interests me enough to learn well enough for OS development. I may take a shot at my own 16 bit realmode DOS when the mood strikes me, though... I was thinking what I wanted out of a 32 bit multi-tasking DOS, and it sortof added up to Linux... |
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ROSTheFuture
Member #2,775
September 2002
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If I remember correctly (I suppose I could check) that FreeDOS was supposed to be making their DOS in 32-bit... At least at the site they (used to) have two files, one ending in ...16b.zip, and the other ...32b.zip (for the binary download).
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