Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Jim Hall
Depends on what programming languages you already know. From your email, it's been a while since you did any programming in anything other than Qt designer. You could learn C. For me, that's not a bad intro programming language - but I probably say that because I am self-taught in C so it doesn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread David McMackins
There really isn't going to be anything Qt-like for DOS. Qt is built around the existence of a display server which isn't really a concept in DOS. Theoretically it could be done in protected mode, but I don't know of anything that does this. Your best bet is going to be C or C++ and just do

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Michal Kochman
Thank you for your answers, I really do. I started coding the same functionality for Ubuntu in QtCreatotr with Qt libraries, just to clarify what exactly I want (https://github.com/MichalKochman/pictureGame). My sister saw it and was quite excited, so I'm gonna firstly finish a little

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > That will be my point too. Problem on developing for DOS is usually > you are not allow to debug, unless in DOS. Exception is OpenWatcom, > which will be my choice. What do you mean by that? You can debug everything everywhere, but if you have cross-compiled a DOS program using a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Guti
That will be my point too. Problem on developing for DOS is usually you are not allow to debug, unless in DOS. Exception is OpenWatcom, which will be my choice. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remitente:Robert Riebisch Destinatario:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Michal, > Recently I have installed freeDOS on 20yrs old PC with the idea of > letting my now 2yrs old nephew play the "games of my childhood" (word > rescue etc.) when the time will be right. However, he loves to find > letters on the keyboard right now - "M for Mum", "D for Dad" etc. So I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 4:18 AM Michal Kochman wrote: > > So I am thinking of writing a simple program which would display a photo and > waited for the right key. > > What's the best way to achieve this, is there some nice crosscompilation > chain to use? What aproach would you suggest? The

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fastest way to start programming for DOS

2020-04-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michal, as you mention crosscompilation: DJGPP is a DOS version of GNU C, but of course the big question is which programming languages you speak and how much effort you want to put in the graphics. From a low level perspective, switching to 320x200 MCGA mode (256 color, default or custom