DOS ain't dead

stable release ready BUT... (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.12.2009, 23:17

> >> However it's been a disappointment to receive such meager feedback
> from
>
> > It's simple: AFAIU your program is only useful in conjunction with
> > wrapper.sys and MS-DOS 7.
>
> A misconception. The program was deliberately conceived to work around the
> MS DOS bug and *not* depend on wrapper.sys, or any third party. You don't
> need to buy or even try wrapper.sys in order to do the simple checks I
> begged (from the audience in general).
>
> > I neither own wrapper.sys nor intend to buy it,
> > so I take no part in this and prefer to remain silent.
>
> Understandable, but it is just bringing water to my mill as we say in
> French.

(bad joke)

"Get the mill key! (Hidden behind standard, shoot it once you get to the armory's hidden door, grind bones, get potion, open mithril door, get castle key)"

(been playing Hammer of Thyrion / Hexen2 demo lately, heh, fun but confusing)

> This forum may not have been quite the friendly place for sharing DOS
> knowledge I had imagined. Never mind, you (I mean, you all, the lurkers)
> are still welcome to comment on the program and I'll release it soon to a
> more public channel. Not that I expect millions of users, considering how
> it's received here :=)

There aren't that many users (apparently 72), most being inactive, and a few blabbermouths to make the forum seem ultra active. To be fair, we're just busy, lazy, or confused! The hack seemed fairly MS-DOS 7 specific, hence we blindly assumed you would test on that and be done with it.

However, if you want me to test to make sure the version check isn't broken, all I've really got is DR-DOS 7.03, MS-DOS 6.22, latest FreeDOS WIP, and an old MS-DOS 7 bootdisk (which I never use). I don't anticipate anything different from your results, though.

Complete thread:

• HK31.SYS *beta* announce & discussion thread - Ninho, 26.11.2009, 17:04 (Announce)
  • HK31.SYS *beta* announce & discussion thread - Ninho, 28.11.2009, 22:07
    • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - Ninho, 29.11.2009, 16:58
      • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - ecm, 29.11.2009, 17:15
        • HK31.SYS *new version* beta 0.9 - Ninho, 29.11.2009, 17:25
  • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 17:50
    • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 01.12.2009, 19:46
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 20:00
        • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 01.12.2009, 22:56
    • stable release ready BUT... - Japheth, 01.12.2009, 21:03
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 01.12.2009, 22:38
        • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 01.12.2009, 23:17
          • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 00:00
            • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 02.12.2009, 00:16
              • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 17:51
            • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 02.12.2009, 18:25
    • stable release ready BUT... - Doug, 02.12.2009, 01:15
      • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 09:23
        • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 02.12.2009, 18:34
          • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 02.12.2009, 19:24
            • stable release ready BUT... - Doug, 02.12.2009, 22:08
              • stable release ready BUT... - Rugxulo, 03.12.2009, 01:12
              • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 12:53
                • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 03.12.2009, 14:20
                  • stable release ready BUT... - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 16:39
                    • stable release ready BUT... - ecm, 03.12.2009, 18:04
  • "HACKWRAP.SYS" out of beta (so I hope...) - Ninho, 03.12.2009, 20:25