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DJGPP love Window$ ? (Developers)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 16.09.2013, 13:45

> Anybody who says they can't test is a liar. We have several ways of testing
> (RUFUS, DOSEMU, VirtualBox). The simple truth is they don't care (or maybe
> just aren't experienced enough to actually make it work).

It's simply time consuming. Not impossible but require some effort that only few users will utilize it. Look at Adobe, they even told that they cannot longer test their SW under Windows XP so they dropped support for this (and older) Windows. And I guess that XP user vs Win7+Vista are maybe still 2:3 not 1:1000000 as in case of DOS...
Also problem is that DJGPP libC is not developing for 10 years and there was added some new functions and macros to current libC/libM version and as software is developing it utilizes more of new functions that libC/libM provides don't looking back...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 14:07 (Developers)
  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 14.09.2013, 18:08
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 18:48
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 07:38
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 09:10
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 12:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:54
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 14.09.2013, 20:36
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 15.09.2013, 09:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:49
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:32
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:53
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:14
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:08
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - RayeR, 16.09.2013, 13:45
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 16.09.2013, 20:56
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 01.10.2013, 08:25
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 16.09.2013, 19:58
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 02.10.2013, 22:52
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 05.10.2013, 22:50
              • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 00:55
                • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 01:59
                  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 20.10.2013, 21:28
                    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 22.10.2013, 01:17