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stable release ready BUT... (Announce)

posted by Ninho E-mail, 02.12.2009, 00:00

>>>> However it's been a disappointment to receive such meager feedback

Or I was feeling alone in this thread, or just being grumpy

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

I've heard playing computer games can lead to mental disorders indeed :-D

>> 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 ...

> There aren't that many users (apparently 72), most being inactive, and a
> few blabbermouths to make the forum seem ultra active. :-D 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.

This is probably all I would have done, until CM started me on the urgency of proper testing for all DOS look-alike, past present and forecoming.

> 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.

Neither do I. More testing never hurts anyway, there is a tendency for bugs to reveal themselves just after the final packaging.

Cheers...

---
Ninho

 

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