DOS ain't dead

Disassembly quality (Developers)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 14.04.2024, 19:33

> > > I know of LK-DOS. I can contact the author to find out where it is
> > > currently if you are interested.
> >
> > I am interested indeed. I also found
> > Snowdrop in the
> mean
> > time.
>
> Ok, he doesn't have it available for public download
> (anymore?), and instead just sent it to me in Discord,
> so I have uploaded it myself.
>
> http://pdos.org/LK-DOS_Pre-Alpha_6.zip
>
> In addition, you specified open source, but apparently
> he hasn't released the source yet, but given that it
> is written in assembler, a disassembly will presumably
> get you close to the original.
>
> He wanted it to be able to run in 16k of memory.

You're downplaying the importance of labels, comments and documentation, and the relocations and relations of data that assembly language source can offer over mere disassembly. There is a reason they call it "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" as the GNU GPL puts it. Disassembly is not even close to that if you wrote readable assembly language to create a program.

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