That's great news, Michael.
WRT, Borland C++ 3.1, I cannot find this at "www.borland.com".
At "http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/";, there is
BCC 5.5 available, which is described as 32 bit. In the museum,
the latest version seems to be 2.01 - would that be suitable (is
it any good?)?
BTW, other free compilers (such as Pacific C, etc.) are also listed in
"http://www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/ccompilers.shtml"; ...
Regards,
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Polak [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Flowerpot project is getting close to release...
>
> I am very close to releasing "Flowerpot" - open source, cross-platform
> graphics and TCP/IP library (or API), which will make Arachne portable
> to any platform, where "Flowerpot" compiles... I have already working
> Makefile which links Flowerpot as shared library on Linux, now I have to
> finish merging header files.
>
> As Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS is freely available in Borland Museum
> (AFAIK), this library may be nice tool to allow creation of portable
> 16bit DOS/Linux graphical applications using freely available tools;
> I would like to use DJGPP too, but there are still reasons for creating
> plain simple 16bit applications for certain purposes....
>
> Any ideas what Flowerpot should or shouldn't include ?
>
> Currently it seems it will support:
> - fullscreen graphics on DOS
> - WATTCP compatibility on DOS
> - SVGAlib and GGI graphics on Linux (possibly SDL in future)
> - BSD sockets API on Linux
> - mouse and keyboard event API
> - multiline text file editing functions
> - GIF and BMP image displaying functions
>
> IKN format will be abandoned in favour of optimized, accelerated and
> memory-cached BMP rendering. I have already converted all IKN files to
> BMP format (although it will take twice as much disk space de-compressed
> - unless I would implement 4bit BMPs, but 1) I am too lazy to do that
> 2) using byte-per-pixel BMP would improve performance in 8bit and 16bit
> colour modes, compared to 4bit BMP - most IKN files are currently 4bit
> BMPs, in fact. Users who need to save disk space will be able to delete
> ikon directory anyway, and it will make Arachne easily themizable
> , like popular themizable programs like WinAMP, xmms, Mozilla, Gtk, Qt,
> Licq, etc.
>
> I will get rid of one of the oldest parts of Arachne code, which is
> almost unreadable and doesn't make much sense, and which is also quite
> unstable and hard to debug. This will also save some DOS memory, make
> CORE.EXE smaller, etc.
>
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