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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by tkchia Homepage, 06.11.2022, 00:31

Hello tom,

> asking to run gorilla.bas (which requires a genuine MS interpreter) or DOOM
> (which I agree is pretty demanding), is indeed a high margin to clear.
donkey.bas, not gorilla.bas! I suspect donkey.bas might not be as hard to "port" to a ARMv7-based chip running non-Microsoft code, as it might first seem.

Google recently (2018) put out a JavaScript-based BASIC interpreter that can already run donkey.bas: https://github.com/google/wwwbasic .

The donkey.bas code contains one POKE into the BASIC interpreter's data segment — which is OK to ignore — and one PEEK into the IBM BIOS's data area.

> I suggest coming back when you can run Norton Commander or any of its
> clones; no matter if on ARM or X86.
I guess that will also be a good goal to aim for. :-)

Thank you!

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