Hi,
Thanks for the responses. I really don't have a project/idea in mind but
am looking to get my hands dirty and develop/work on/debug/poke anything
that needs to be done to improve the project.
After looking at the FreeDOS roadmap (
http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/FreeDOS_Road_Map) it seems like
working on developing automated regression tests (something I do most days)
would be beneficial to speed up releases. Has anyone looked into this
before? What would be things that would be most useful to be tested?
Right now I am looking into a way to programmatically create a VirtualBox
VM and boot into FreeDOS from a floppy image and run the VER command as a
"hello world!" for a testing framwork.
Eventually I would like to play with USB printing support because I am a
dork who likes printing, but that is something I don't believe I am really
capable of right now.
Best,
--Andy
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Andy Stamp <luigi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been a FreeDOS user on and off for > 10 years and am interested in
> > contributing but don't really know where to get started.
> >
> > I currently work developing and testing printer firmware and software but
> > expect that this will be quite a learning curve from the QNX/Python
> > environments that I spend a lot of time in.
> >
> > Are there docs that describe the DOS programming API that I should start
> > with? Or bugs that I should poke at to get a more in-depth view of how
> > everything fits together.
>
> Since you mentioned "developing", are you trying to write TSRs or
> device drivers (.SYS) or something else? Is real mode / 8086
> acceptable or are you trying to use 286 / XMS or 386 / DPMI, etc?
>
> There is a 32-bit DJGPP port of Python 2.4.2, but most people here
> would probably recommend OpenWatcom, DJGPP (as Eric already said), or
> even something like FreePascal or FreeBASIC.
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/python
>
>
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