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ARM version of MSDOS (Announce)

posted by Richard, 06.11.2022, 10:41

> Well, PDOS-generic, anyway.
>
> Commands date/time, copy, dir, type, exit are working.
>
> Works on ARM Chromebook, Android smartphone and Android netbook.
>
> https://github.com/jeanmarclienher/Pdos-PdAndro/releases/tag/rel0.7.0


I know nothing about ARM programming etc. but I would be interested in running programs that I want to write myself for an android smartphone. Would your work allow say a FreeBASIC program to be launched from a smartphone?

I have not read into the ARM side of things (and how to configure FreeBASIC to produce the required code) but I was wondering if using your work would be useful to me.

On studying the FreeBASIC forum: -


https://www.freebasic.net/forum/index.php

there are 962 matches of "ARM" and for me, so far, these two below are interesting reading

FreeBASICpi - Retro Rasberry PI image
https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29665


FreBASIC 1.09.0 Release
https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=289214&hilit=ARM#p289214

The complete lack of standardization of the ARM platform is a real problem, nothing FB devs can do anything about. This isn't Linux's fault per se. Every ARM device has its own variation on the boot loader, custom device tree, proprietary bits, etc. So there's no universal ARM Ubuntu distribution, for example, that runs on every device. Most custom devices like Pine's run their own distro that sometimes is based on something standard, but not always. So it's incredibly hard to support Linux binaries on ARM. If ARM ever finally got a standardized platform the way Intel-compatible PCs have with standardized booting, standardized device layouts, then Intel would be in serious trouble! Maybe if Microsoft would get serious about Windows on ARM then we'd see some standardization. Or Maybe Apple's M1 family will spur some of this.



There "might" be the option of using QB64 code program (generated for a PI) - but I have even less understanding on this (plus I do not have a PI).

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