Hi!
The DOS port has been inoperative since 0.5, and it would take pretty
serious work to get it to work again. Also, due to Crawl's bloat, 640K is
no longer enough for anyone -- we quite often exceed 64M. There are no
machines with that much memory which can conceivably be stuck with DOS.
The only case that came near was DosBox for iPhone -- but after successful
porting it was denied by Apple whose policies ban exposing anything that can
be used to give users a Turing-complete language. Not to mention Crawl's
speed -- quite slow on that kind of machines natively already. Emulated at
low-end 386 speed it would be unusable.
Paying lip service to DOS compatibility is a burden. Thus, should we put it
out of its misery?
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