DOS ain't dead - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS

test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP (Users)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 14.02.2011, 21:16

> Hi all,
>
> Good to see some continued interest in Arachne.
> If any of you are curious, I have a forked version that has
> a few advantages over the stock line. Probably the majority of
> Arachne users in the past were opposed in principal to my forking the
> code, so I quite understand if no one wants to touch it, but if anyone
> does want to have a look, the main points are:
>
> ca. 200K less memory required.
> automatic charset selection.
> better setup.
> complete rewrite of SRC
> full integration of xlopif and wattcp libraries
> no 'build all' problems
> dozens of little bug fixes
> basically smoother GUI operation
>
> If I could get someone to give me a hand with TASM, it wouldn't
> take long to get the thing ready for porting to 32 bit. I started
> getting it NASM compatible, but I know only the first things about ASM,
> so I didn't get very far. In the old days I had Michal Tyc and nothing was
> impossible :-)
>
> Oh, a few things that some have hated:
>
> Removal of support for museum class hardware (CGA, EGA, <386 processor,
> etc.)
> Small changes to key assignments.

Damn, that I didn't know this before few days. I could spent effort on much more fresh version. You did also some enhancement to VESA code? It would be nice to turn it fully into 32bit code like DR-Webspyder (prefer DJGPP/NASM) and clean up old things (I would mind about <VGA). Also wattcp could be replaced by modern SWSSOCKS. I don't have much time to work on it but if you will share your code just to test it. For the ASM there are better gurus here than me, I only use NASM a little bit and forgot TASM syntax.

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test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 09.02.2011, 05:10 (Users)
- test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 09.02.2011, 16:19
  - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - ron, 09.02.2011, 21:37
    - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 10.02.2011, 01:13
      - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - ron, 10.02.2011, 01:34
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 10.02.2011, 06:04
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 01:40
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 15.02.2011, 16:06
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 10.02.2011, 15:37
      - shot: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - DOS386, 13.02.2011, 05:53
    - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Laaca, 10.02.2011, 07:43
      - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - ron, 10.02.2011, 23:11
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - glennmcc, 11.02.2011, 01:28
- test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 11.02.2011, 11:57
  - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Laaca, 11.02.2011, 14:14
  - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Japheth, 11.02.2011, 14:24
    - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 11.02.2011, 14:50
      - test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 12.02.2011, 01:51
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 13.02.2011, 07:13
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - DOS386, 13.02.2011, 07:19
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - Laaca, 13.02.2011, 08:19
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS - RayeR, 13.02.2011, 14:33
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - DOS386, 13.02.2011, 14:46
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - RayeR, 13.02.2011, 15:59
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - RayeR, 13.02.2011, 22:43
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - glennmcc, 14.02.2011, 01:04
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - DOS386, 14.02.2011, 09:28
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 14.02.2011, 21:00
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - RayeR, 14.02.2011, 21:16
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 14.02.2011, 22:10
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - Rugxulo, 15.02.2011, 16:09
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - RayeR, 15.02.2011, 17:51
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - DOS386, 17.02.2011, 07:07
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - RayeR, 17.02.2011, 10:41
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - DOS386, 17.02.2011, 11:17
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 17.02.2011, 17:41
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - DOS386, 18.02.2011, 03:59
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 18.02.2011, 21:33
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 18.02.2011, 21:35
        test: Arachne 1.95 under FreeDOS | wheel+DGJPP - rayandrews, 18.02.2011, 23:53
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATCOM - DOS386, 19.02.2011, 11:49
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATCOM - rayandrews, 19.02.2011, 16:55
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATCOM - rayandrews, 19.02.2011, 17:39
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - DOS386, 21.02.2011, 09:49
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - rayandrews, 23.02.2011, 18:15
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - RayeR, 23.02.2011, 23:40
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - DOS386, 24.02.2011, 08:27
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - rayandrews, 24.02.2011, 16:07
        "glennmcc . org/rayandrews" files | source code | WATTCOM - rayandrews, 24.02.2011, 17:40