| Re: 64copy v4.2 (full version) released [message #138182 is a reply to message #137737] |
Thu, 26 May 2005 09:08   |
schepers
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In article <428efc4c$1@news.inet.com.pl>,
silverdr <silverdr@inet.remove.it.pl> wrote:
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> P.S. Have you thought about e.g. (n)curses? Could it be close enough to
> the text based DOS environment that most parts of your app wouldn't need
> major rewriting, except the presentation, while immediately giving the
> chance to run it on all modern platforms, including Windows?
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> Just a thought...
I've looked at it, but it doesn't get me very far. I would still have to
convert over the button controller, help system and a few other major
functions not controlled by ncurses.
Have you, and any other person not able to easily run DOS apps, considered
DOSbox?
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
It's got support for the following OS's
Debian woody
Windows
FreeBSD package
Fedora Core 2 &3
Gentoo Linux
BeOS
Mac OS X
Suse 9.0 rpm
Suse 9.0 src
Suse 8.2
I make no good/bad recommendation to use this as its a maturing project,
I've only briefly tried it, and 64COPY appears to work with it.
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Peter Schepers, | Author of : 64COPY, The C64 EMU file converter
Info Systems & Technology | http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/personal.html
University of Waterloo, | My opinion is not likely that of the
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | University, its employees, or anybody
(519) 888-4567 ext 2456 | on this planet. Too bad!
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| Re: 64copy v4.2 (full version) released [message #139234 is a reply to message #139233] |
Sat, 28 May 2005 19:16 |
schepers
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In article <4298ebf1$1@news.inet.com.pl>,
silverdr <silverdr@inet.remove.it.pl> wrote:
> Peter Schepers wrote:
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>> Have you, and any other person not able to easily run DOS apps, considered
>> DOSbox?
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>> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
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> I shall look at it again. Last time I checked (quite long ago) it wasn't
> "ready for the desktop".
Well, I tried it a little more, and it has, in my opinion, one major flaw:
the entire SHIFT-functionkey range is used by DOSbox... you can't utilize
them for your app. This seriously limits the fkey abilities of 64COPY,
unless you want to use the menus (pull-down and pop-up) instead.
Another small flaw is the INT for returning the date doesn't work, thus
the date display might be garbage but the time will be OK. I've already
fixed up v4.3 (under development) to do some bounds checking and cleanup
the date display if bogus numbers are returned for a date.
PS.
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