DOS ain't dead

Thank you for testing the release candidate.
I especially want to thank Fritz Mueller for great help.

Today I uploaded the final version.
Project webpage

What is new in Blocek 1.75
* tries to be more compatible with virtual environments
- copying texts from GUI dialogs to edit windows works better now
+ if you try to copy text to clipboard without any text selected, the word on cursor position will be used
- after every 65536 bytes loader added invalid character to loaded text
* slightly improved color selection dialog
+ functions for line expanding
+ optional spaces emphasing
+ Find dialog offers the phrase occurrences counting
+ right mouse click offers new word related functions
+ right mouse click (or Ctrl-L) offers new line related functions
+ correctly replaces Unicode characters above 0xFFFF to character 0xFFFD "?"
+ keyboard shortcuts in the main menu
* main menu does not allow to select functions which aren't currently applicable
* buttons in some situations accept keyboard shortcuts without pressed ALT
* unicode definition tables are now separated to own TBL subdirectory

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DOS-u-akbar!

I created and uploaded a SvarDOS package from your recent repack version 1.75b.

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Thanks, will test asap.
Did you check my updated english text I have sent to you some months ago that support more "underscore+character" functions (some of them did not work, no idea why).

> Did you check my updated english text I have sent to you some months ago
> that support more "underscore+character" functions (some of them did not
> work, no idea why).

I'm not Laaca.

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I haven't had luck running 1.75 on either DOSBox or DOSBox-X (under Linux).

It crashes with an error in DOSBox ("hyba v kom hguracn l soubo t. Ne lezena tomenna \ scree 'width"). I interpreted this as an error with screen width. I tried changing the CFG file resolution to 640x480 and turning off mmx, but that didn't work either.

DOSBox-X exits with a page fault and shows debug information. Moving a mouse triggers further repeating errors.

> I haven't had luck running 1.75 on either DOSBox or DOSBox-X (under Linux).
>
>
> It crashes with an error in DOSBox ("hyba v kom hguracn l soubo t. Ne
> lezena tomenna \ scree 'width"). I interpreted this as an error with screen
> width. I tried changing the CFG file resolution to 640x480 and turning off
> mmx, but that didn't work either.
>
> DOSBox-X exits with a page fault and shows debug information. Moving a
> mouse triggers further repeating errors.

Upon further investigation of the problem it seems to be the problem with emulators, as the earlier versions don't work either (tested 1.74 and 1.63).

Strange, I think I remember it running in DOSBox before...

I'll try DOSBox under Windows 11 one of these days to see if it's some Linux specific problem.

There were problems with Blocek and the different versions of dosbox in the last year, see:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php...0&order=last_answer&descasc=DESC#p20670

So please check the latest versions of dosbox-x or dosbox staging.

> There were problems with Blocek and the different versions of dosbox in the
> last year, see:
> https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php...0&order=last_answer&descasc=DESC#p20670
>
> So please check the latest versions of dosbox-x or dosbox staging.

Thanx, I will try them out.

On the download page is available a special distribution with integrated DosBox-X which I test for compatibility.
But it is a windows version of DosBox not the Linux version.
Somebody of you could me help with that. It would be nice to find some version of DosBox for Linux which would work with Blocek. Then I could prepare similar distribution of Blocek with integrated DosBox for Linux.

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DOS-u-akbar!

> It would be nice to find some version of DosBox for Linux
> which would work with Blocek. Then I could prepare similar
> distribution of Blocek with integrated DosBox for Linux.

I asked the devs once before, but they weren't interested. "Static binaries" is usually (but not always) unpopular in Linux circles.

Maybe Flatpak or Snap would help??

> I asked the devs once before, but they weren't interested. "Static
> binaries" is usually (but not always) unpopular in Linux circles.
>
> Maybe Flatpak or Snap would help??

I would suggest AppImage. It's very easy to use for end users.

> There were problems with Blocek and the different versions of dosbox in the
> last year, see:
> https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php...0&order=last_answer&descasc=DESC#p20670
>
> So please check the latest versions of dosbox-x or dosbox staging.

I just upgraded to the latest release of DOSBox-X and it did work. Thanx for the suggestion.