I know, right? The IDE is Windows-based but yes, it surprisingly defaulted
to QB compatibility rather than FB.

Yeah, the lack of a 16-bit target made me pretty much write it off for this
project. The project is having string space corruption issues right now
anyway, so a C rewrite (or just forgetting the project altogether lol) may
be more prudent.



On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Nevermind... figured it out. The IDE set the default language to QB
> compatibility. Duh.
>
> Duh! Didn't know that FreeBASIC would have a DOS IDE, even less
> one defaulting to "lang QB".
>
> BTW, FreeBASIC 1.01.0 is out, it still mostly works, and supports DOS.
>
> > I don't see yet how your 'simple shell' would enhance FreeDOS.
> > what parts does it better then FreeCOM in what specific way?
>
> Note that you can't replace FreeCOM by your 'simple shell'
> compiled using FBC for the simple reason that FBC doesn't support
> 16-bit 8086 target. Hacking on "-gen GCC" and subsequently
> compiling with WATCOM might be theoretically possible
> but is not something that would work out of the box.
>
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