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Another DOS port od NeoFetch from UNIXes (Announce)

posted by Laaca Homepage, Czech republic, 21.03.2024, 18:34

No, Fetch4FD is written and compiled in Turbo pascal 7. But it can be adapted very easily for Free pascal too. But why to do it?
You ask whether is the code page and coutry detection relable.
Well, it is so reliable how it can be. It just calls the DOS function
AX=6501h/INT 21h

And the CPU detection is quite powerful. Just look at the screenshot in my first post. It shows the CPU brand string.
The tricky part is the serie of fallbacks if the CPU brand string is not available.

The LFN detection is o good idea. Other possible extension could be detection of XMS, EMS, DPMI and VCPI.

And in the beginning I planed a really killer feature. In case when FreeDOS is detected it would show not the "DOS" logo but FreeDOS logo.
But it was not implemented because of my laziness.
However I offer this: if somebody draws a nice colorful ASCII art logo for FreeDOS I can implement it.

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