Hallo Herr jer...@shidel.net, am Sonntag, 5. März 2023 um 22:43 schrieben Sie:
> Hi all, > I spent a few minutes looking at 386MAX. > Unfortunately, it is going to take at least a some work by someone > (not me) before it could even be considered for inclusion. > First, it cannot even be run at present. The precompiled > executables and even diskette versions are present along with the > sources. However, the executables must be installed by it’s setup > program which writes an user/serial number into the executables. > Those executables will not run without that being done. The setup > program (and source) are present as well. However apparently, serial > numbers are not pre-generated and were created when producing the > media. So, that is all the further I got during testing. > Someone who has access to old MS C and Assemblers laying around > will need to work on this to get it functional. Thankfully, it looks > like there are numerous batch files to automate the building > process. It is a large codebase and porting it to open source > compilers would take someone a very long time. Again, neither will be done be > me. > As far as I could tell in my limited testing, the following would need done… > 1) Update Company/License/Copyright information to reflect the > project was released to the public under GNUv3 by the author. > 2) Remove or at least disable the user/serial number stuff in the executables. > 3) Possibly, forego the requirement of using the setup program. > Since 386 is large, complicated and can be used under DOS with or > without windows, it may be best that if we ever include a package > for it, that the package binaries include the installer. This would > permit installing the program and having it perform all the required > steps based on the end users system. > Any volunteers? to start first: what would be the point to have 386MAX in freedos distribution (after 20 years without it)? I know that it was somewhat important in the middle ages, but now? Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
